kustomize changing the yaml formatting

[lswith]

I've been using a specific yaml format for the kustomization.yaml files. It seems though that when I run the command kustomize edit set imagetag <imagetag> the file is reformatted. This is annoying when using gitops as its hard to see what's changed.

[Liujingfang1]

What version of kustomize are you using? In v1.0.6, we added the feature of preserving the comments and orders in kustomization.yaml when edit is called.

[Liujingfang1]

@lswith Do you still see this problem with the new version?

[lswith]

yep its working fine!

[gabegorelick]

Comments and the order of top-level elements in kustomization.yaml seem to be preserved when running something like kustomize edit set image, but kustomize (as of v3.8.5) still reformats the file. For example it will change indentation and alphabetize properties under configMapGenerator, images, etc.