Azure-devops-docs: Should indicate what happens when publishing to the same artifact

[trajano]

This should describe the behaviour when publishing to an existing artifact.

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• ID: 41baa0b5-175c-a697-4b7d-c150259c6e6b
• Version Independent ID: 75085b15-1acc-526a-0495-74a13c42c1d5
• Content: Publish Pipeline Artifacts task - Azure Pipelines
• Content Source: docs/pipelines/tasks/utility/publish-pipeline-artifact.md
• Product: devops
• Technology: devops-cicd
• GitHub Login: @vijayma
• Microsoft Alias: vijayma

[ScottLangham]

I want to know if I can publish files to the same artifact from different jobs?

[lipalath-ms]

@ScottLangham Any updates on your question? please let me know. thank you.

[ScottLangham]

I found through experimentation that it doesn't work.

[Smootium]

Confirming @ScottLangham's experimentation, this is the error I get today (and the PublishPipeLineArtifact task fails):

No LastRequestResponse on exception ArtifactExistsException: Artifact packageNamesJsonFile already exists for build 151265.
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[error]Artifact packageNamesJsonFile already exists for build 151265.

One job creates and updates one property in a JSON file, which it then uploads.
A subsequent job downloads the artifact and updates another property in the file.
Another subsequent job needs the file with both properties filled out; I was attempting to simply have the one artifact instead of having to upload another artifact (basically, a copy of the first artifact).
😕

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