title: Is there a way to generate ant file local.properties without overwriting build.xml?
body: <p>I've generated ant build.xml for my android project, using <code>android update project --name &lt;project_name&gt; --target &lt;target_ID&gt; --path path/to/your/project/</code> 
  (according to <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html</a>) and then modified my build.xml (some custom code is there). So my build.xml is in the VCS.</p>
  
  <p>But in order to perform a build I need local.properties file, which is also generated by <code>android update project</code> and so build.xml gets overwritten.</p>
  
  <p>local.properties is not to be checked into the VCS.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to only generate the local.properties so that developers (or a build server) can check out the code and build the project using build.xml from VCS? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>