How to avoid generating `versions.properties`?

[joffrey-bion]

I'm using exclusively the version catalog libs.versions.toml, but when running refreshVersions, the versions.properties file is always regenerated (with nothing but the header comment in it).

Is there any way to prevent this?

[LouisCAD]

Not yet

[joffrey-bion]

Ok, thanks for your very quick response! Should I leave this open to track it or is there already an issue for this? (I couldn't find it)

[Vampire]

This way you can avoid it if you do not use the library notations coming with the plugin:

gradle.rootProject {
    tasks.configureEach {
        if (name == "refreshVersions") {
            doLast {
                delete("versions.properties")
            }
        }
    }
}

[Vampire]

Or you configure a path for the file that is not version controlled and doesn't disturb like

refreshVersions {
    file("build/tmp/refreshVersions").mkdirs()
    versionsPropertiesFile = file("build/tmp/refreshVersions/versions.properties")
}

[joffrey-bion]

Thanks! I don't know why I didn't think of that. It still feels a bit hacky of course, but better than versioning a comment-only version file.

It would be great if the plugin detected that the file doesn't need to be created we there is nothing to write to it

[joffrey-bion]

Any chance this could get some attention?

[LouisCAD]

Yes, hopefully this year.