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Have you set the Triggers? You could set it to the hash of the file, would achieve what you want?

Or maybe the lastModifyDate, or whatever your file sdk provides.

Not a real fix but as a workaround, you might try `pulumi up` with “replace” to tell it to replace your file.
```--replace stringArray                   Specify a single resource URN to replace. Multiple resources can be specified using --replace urn1 --replace urn2. Wildcards (*, **) are also supported```

thank you both for the suggestions, that definitely helps