How to delete resources on sync when Replace does not work

[lindhe]

If I have a resource in Kubernetes and I want to update a field which cannot be modified after creation, then I have to first delete the resource and then create a new one. In my specific case, I need to change some of the parameters in a StorageClass. Is it possible to do something similar with Argo CD, without having to go in and manually delete the resources?

I thought the replace sync option would do this, but it seems not. I enabled it and nothing happened. Syncing did not apply my change, instead I ended up with an empty diff. 🤷

Looking around for similar issues, I found #19429 that made me wonder if Replace may be broken (at least via annotations)?

[lindhe]

It seems like setting Force=true without Replace=true does what I want!