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It is uncommon, but sometimes the case that a project commits generated files
into version control. This can be useful when the generated files are seldomly updated
and have burdensome system dependencies for the update process, but *only* during the
update process.

For this, **WriteFiles** provides a way to accomplish this task. This is a feature that
[will be extracted from WriteFiles into its own Build Step](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14944)
in a future Zig version.
update process. **UpdateSourceFiles** provides a way to accomplish this task.

Be careful with this functionality; it should not be used during the normal
build process, but as a utility run by a developer with intention to update
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