[Bug?]: Yarn needlessly reformats package.json, even on CI about berry HOT 3 CLOSED

Duplicate of #6184

from berry.

Doesn't seem to be the same kind of issue to me.

{
  "name": "test-yarn",
  "packageManager": "[email protected]",
  "bin": {
    "test-yarn": "./path/to/file"
  }
}

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{
  "name": "test-yarn",
  "packageManager": "[email protected]",
  "bin": "./path/to/file"
}

vs.

{
  "name": "test-yarn",
  "packageManager": "[email protected]",
  "files": ["./path/to/file", "./another/path"]
}

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{
  "name": "test-yarn",
  "packageManager": "[email protected]",
  "files": [
    "./path/to/file",
    "./another/path"
  ]
}

are very different. The former changes the structure, while the latter is formatting only.

from berry.

Depends.

If you want to make this issue specifically about the --immutable flag taking the formatting into account, then it's not a bug.

The --immutable flag ensures that someone cloning your branch and running an install won't see spurious changes; whether those changes are semantic or syntactic doesn't matter: it'd be confusing either way ("should I commit those changes?").

from berry.