Setvar removes description, create updatevar or similar command to handle existing variables better.

[CurtisHodak]

User reported but also something that could be helpful to others. When using spacectl stack environment setvar -- id <stack id> <variable> <value> the description is removed due to overwriting the variable. When these envs are managed through our terraform provider it constantly lists them as updates. User has had to add the variable description to ignore changes and leave them blank but having descriptions listed would always be better to communicate the purpose of the variable.

Instead of wanting to set the variable with the command and having to maintain the description somewhere could a new command such as 'updatevar' be created? This could update existing variables change or leave the description and update the variable. And if something goes wrong such as the variable does not already exist output an some sort of notification.

[tomasmik]

This might be viable in a hacky way on spacectl side only by getting the variables and replacing only the user provided bits. Backend does not expose an update mutation, nor are those really a thing in it.