On capacitor run, prevent updating plugin

I am running to a problem, when I have to edit .java file in capacitor-cordova-android-plugin which it works fine when I am running project from Android Studio, but then each time I run capacitor run it updates the whole thing and overrides my changes. How to prevent that ?

Why are you updating plugin files in first place?

Cordova plugin files get copied to capacitor-cordova-android-plugin on every update/sync, so if you edit them, they are a copy and get overwritten from the original.

If you need to update a plugin, you should clone it, make the changes locally and install from the local folder.

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