Michael Hönnig

Freelance Software Developer

Java / Kotlin / Spring
PostgreSQL / pl/pgSQL
TypeScript / Angular
eXtreme Programming /Kanban / Scrum

Tag: Git

Checking in the Gradle Wrapper or Not?

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Michael HönnigMichael Hönnig

The gradle wrapper can download and verify a specified version of gradle for a project without the need of a local gradle executable. The gradle documentation suggests to check it into the VCS (version control system, e.g. git). This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of keeping the gradle wrapper in a VCS and presents an alternative.