Actions rewrite the property files, comments and formatting are removed

[dapicester]

I am using the set_properties_value and increment_version_code_in_properties_file. The values got correctly updated but the actions deleted all the formatting (empty lines) and comments in the properties file. That is unexpected to me.

My expectation is that the actions set only the given properties, without any further modification to the file.

[jacklebbos]

up

[dapicester]

FYI I have replaced this plugin with some code to read and increment the version and then call sed to replace the lines I need.

[jacklebbos]

Can you show me an example please?

[dapicester]

Something like this:

lane :update_version do
  version = get_version # this is where I get the current version and increment it
  sh "sed -i '' 's/^VERSION_NAME=.*/VERSION_NAME=#{version}/' ../android/gradle.properties"
end

I also suggest you look into how to use sed on the command line for this kind of tasks.