yonaskolb / yonaskolb/XcodeGen

Deterministic project file and pods

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Description

I noticed if I ran xcodegen a few times, the results were deterministic and no changes showed up on a local diff.
However, if I run pod install afterwards, the results were sometimes different.

How would I avoid such changes so we have a project file that is deterministic?

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue by running xcodegen repeatedly, then pod install, and compare the resulting project-file diffs. Trace the project-generation and pod-install entry points to identify the source of nondeterminism; done means repeated runs produce no changes to the project file.

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Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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