XCRemoteSwiftPackageReference .git suffix constantly changing in project.pbxproj

Question

On our team, pull requests were often raised with changes similar to the following

(or sometimes they would change back, that is, remove the .git)

This was causing a lot of noise in PRs but we were unable figure out the cause of the change.

Arabela

I have also been experiencing this lately using only XCode (no AppCode). I can't wrap my head around the reason why this is happening tho – Tonitonia

Answer 1

We (much) later discovered that this was happening because a member of the team was using AppCode without our knowledge. It is also a known issue:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/OC-21297/AppCode-messes-up-the-xcodeproj-project-pbxproj-file-and-introdu

Arabela

Oh, interesting. This is happening for us also. I'll ask the team if they're using AppCode. 👍🏻 – Pooka

This has been occurring with my team as well. No one is using AppCode though. Wonder what is causing this... – Invocation

Answer 2

Another potential source is the Xcodeproj library which is used by many tools, including fastlane.

https://github.com/CocoaPods/Xcodeproj/issues/882

Cockayne