fix download --force --run-format merging problems #4328
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Related Issues
fixes: https://jira-dc.paloaltonetworks.com/browse/CIAC-9685
Description
When running, we first call a get_dict_from_file function to do the merging with the local file. When running format after we use the get_dict_from_file function a second time. By default, it uses the cache and therefore returned the old (pre-merge) file again and ran format on it instead of the new file and saved it again. This resulted in the merger results not being saved. Passing clear_cache=True resolved this problem.