Re-importing new FBX with additional animations without breaking all references

In my project I'm fairly regularly adding additional animations to my character as I make progress and see the need for a new one.

I've tried the typical approach of replacing the FBX file directly in Explorer, but this seems to ignore the new animations. If I remove the associated .meta file then every reference to the mesh in the model is reset, and any Animator references to Motions also get reset.

On a large project going through and fixing all the broken references isn't a great solution, does anyone know if there's a clean way to keep the references while bringing in new animations?

 

Nevermind, figured it out, new animations don't appear in your Clips automatically, but that's actually a desirable behavior if you've customized your Clips at all.

You just need to add a new Clip and then select the newly added animation from the Source Take: