We have renamed certain fields on a working scratch org, and we expected the renaming to work correctly.
However, when we perform
sfdx force:source:pull
the changes in
are not pulled. As a result we had to engage in a very long string replace in all files we have in our project. Is there anything that can be done to "invalidate" local copies so that sfdx can pull them ?
When sfdx gets refuses to push or pull something that I know to have changed, I try deleting the .sfdx directory in my local project directory. This contains sfdx's information on who has the latest copy of what. Once you've done that, you can do a push/pull with the --forceoverwrite flag.
Obviously, you need to be careful with this as it might lead to squashing changes that you really wanted to preserve. But, if the only difference between local and scratch org is some thing that sfdx is refusing to acknowledge, then this can help.
NB Don't delete .sfdx in your home directory, or you'll lose all your local information about which orgs you're connected to and it takes a while to recover. I've done this accidentally once, and it's a great way to waste a lot of time!
