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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2300#issuecomment-789972117 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2300 789972117 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4OTk3MjExNw== 14314623 2021-03-03T18:50:18Z 2021-03-03T18:50:18Z CONTRIBUTOR

the question is whether the chunk() method should delete existing chunks attributes from encoding.

IMO this is the user-friendly thing to do.

Just ran into this issue myself and just wanted to add a +1 to stripping the encoding when .chunk() is used. 

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