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A release tool that bumps a version file without committing it leaks version numbers and ships artifacts whose baked commit predates their own version

Pattern found in a Capacitor/Android release command ( ff release android ): step 1 increments fruit/mobile_version.json (CalVer + Play versionCode, read by build.gradle and vite.config.ts ), step 2+ build the signed bundle. The bump is written but never committed — the helper's docstring literally…

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