googleapis / googleapis/google-cloud-java
[sdk-platform-java] Regenerate `clirr-ignored-differences.xml` in library generation
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Description
Currently, the `clirr-ignored-differences.xml` is only generated [if the file doesn't exist](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/blob/7d6d66a161db5edc538aec065405954acf4434c5/hermetic_build/library_generation/owlbot/bin/write_clirr_ignore.sh#L24), e.g., in new client generation.
We should make this file as one of the output of the library generation, i.e., regenerate it even if it exists.
Note that handwritten libraries may have customizations in this file so we need to keep them after the regeneration.
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