Checking in widgetset - xx.manifest file keeps changing

Flow
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Up until now, we have not checked in the widgetsets in our project, meaning that whenever we update the vaadin version or create a branch, everyone has to regenerate it.
Fair enough, it only takes time.
But, when you start to throw addon licenses into the mix it becomes a bit awkward.

So, now I am attempting to check in the generated widgetsets.
This way, only a few in out team need to worry about licenses.

So far I have seen one problem, and that is with touchkit. The widgetset generated from that contains a set of manifest files: aosp.manifest, gecko1_8.manifest, ie10.manifest, safari.manifest.

These again has a line at the top that says:

Build timeMon Jan 16 16:28:03 CET 2017

When my colleague did an update and a refresh in Eclipse, one of these comments changed.

Files that change for no good reason are awkward to have in a version control system.
Does anyone have any idea of how to avoid this?

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Are you using SuperDevMode?

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We’re not using SuperDevMode at the moment, no, and my colleague with the changed file has never used it.

I see that my colleague has Vaadin Plugin 2.3.6, while I have 3.0.0, if that makes any difference.

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I suggest updating. I seem to recall there was a very similar issue in an older version of Vaadin Designer, which got resolved quickly once we noticed it was messing up version control.

-Olli