[Regression]: "playwright.ps1 install" crashes in branches with older version when newer version was installed in another branch about playwright-dotnet HOT 3 OPEN

I can reproduce.

@campersau do you think this this is because we do CopyToOutputDirectory="PreserveNewest" and in the case of switching back to v1.44 it wouldn't write the files against because it thinks the v1.45 are newer (based on last modified timestamp) and skips them? Probably the only option is to use CopyToOutputDirectory="Always" then?

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Yes, CopyToOutputDirectory="Always" would fix that. But it might increase the build time a little bit 00:00:01.66 vs 00:00:01.90 on my machine with a single project. But I am not sure we should do it. We can also say: always do a dotnet clean when rolling back to older versions. (That's the nice thing when using ItemGroups and CopyToOutputDirectory, it integrates into other msbuild / dotnet commands.)

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I'll add for now the p3-collecting-feedback label, since it would regress performance and we didn't hear much backlash from the community since we added it.

For now we recommend

dotnet clean

aka. deleting the bin/ directory as a workaround.

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