DiffIgnoring the only annotation present leads to an empty annotation object which is still different

[Rafaesp]

I have the following diff in one of my applications:

I've added the following ignoreDifferences to my manifest:

ignoreDifferences:
  - group: apps
    kind: Deployment
    jsonPointers:
      - /spec/template/metadata/annotations/kubectl.kubernetes.io~1restartedAt

But the end result is still a difference and the sync status is still OutOfSync.

Is there a way ArgoCD can handle this case? Thank you

[JrCs]

I think you must add a "fake" annotation so the result is not an empty annotation

[nabadger]

This is causing us a few problems (especially when it happens on lots of apps).

Are there any solutions from argo here (don't really like the idea of having a fake-annotation to work around this).

[guiguan]

Any update on this? This is so annoying