Mark output files readonly

[JayBazuzi]

Is the feature request related to a problem?

Often while iterating on documentation, we accidentally edit the output files instead of the source files. These edits then get wiped out when we rerun mdsnippets.

Describe the solution

mdsnippets could mark the output files to be writable before writing them, and set them back to readonly right after.

Describe alternatives considered

None at this time.

Additional context

We're on Windows.

Thanks,

• Jay and Llewellyn

[claremacrae]

I really like this idea.

[SimonCropp]

Is it safe to mark files under source control as read only? Couldn’t this potentially interfere with the source control tooling?

[SimonCropp]

https://github.com/SimonCropp/MarkdownSnippets#mark-resulting-files-as-read-only

[SimonCropp]

This is now deployed. NuGet may take some time to make it available for download.