I have a gradle composite build in following directory structure.

.
├── component-1
├── component-2
├── component-3
└── composite-build

Here, all components are multi-project builds. Each component has implemented the release plugin and can be released individually. The composite-build has following settings.gradle.

rootProject.name = 'composite-build'

includeBuild '../component-1'
includeBuild '../component-2'
includeBuild '../component-3'

I want to execute release task of each component in a specific order but I couldn't find a proper way. Following are some cases that I tried and failed. In these cases individual release tasks are also failing due to conflicting git tag commits done by release plugin.

Case 1:

In build.gradle

task releaseAll {
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-1').task(':release')
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-2').task(':release')
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-3').task(':release')
}

Case 2:

In build.gradle

task releaseComponent1 {
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-1').task(':release')
}

task releaseComponent2 {
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-2').task(':release')
}

task releaseComponent3 {
    dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-3').task(':release')
}

releaseComponent2.configure {
    mustRunAfter releaseComponent1
}

releaseComponent3.configure {
    mustRunAfter releaseComponent2
}

task releaseAll {
    dependsOn releaseComponent1
    dependsOn releaseComponent2
    dependsOn releaseComponent3
}

Sample error message:

> Task :component-1:component-1-release:preTagCommit FAILED
Running [git, commit, -m,  [Gradle Release Plugin] - pre tag commit:  'component-1-0.1.10'., -a] produced an error: []
Running [git, push, --porcelain, origin, main] produced an error: [error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git']

> Task :component-1:release FAILED
Release process failed, reverting back any changes made by Release Plugin.
Running [git, checkout, gradle.properties] produced an error: [error: pathspec 'gradle.properties' did not match any file(s) known to git]

1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':component-1:component-1-release:preTagCommit'.
> Failed to push to remote - [To https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git
  !     refs/heads/main:refs/heads/main [remote rejected] (cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/main': is at <xxxx> but expected <yyyy>)
  Done
  ][error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git'
  ]

CodePudding user response：

There is always an option with gradle where you can automate and link task execution with finalizedBy and you can test this simple code to check how it work :

task A() {
    println 'taskA'
}
task B() {
    println 'taskB'
}
tasks.named("B") { finalizedBy("A") }

task C() {
    println 'taskC'
}
tasks.named("C") { finalizedBy("B") }

This way, by calling gradle C it will backtrack to execute A then B then C

Same way, You can do 3 tasks to get the desired ordered execution like this

task c1release(type:Exec) {
  workingDir '.\\component-1'
  commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
     doLast {
         println "component-1 release is being excuted"
     }
}
tasks.named("c1release") { finalizedBy("c2release") }

task c2release(type:Exec) {
  workingDir '.\\component-2'
  commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
     doLast {
         println "component-2 release is being excuted"
     }
}
tasks.named("c2release") { finalizedBy("c3release") }


task c3release(type:Exec) {
  workingDir '.\\component-3'
  commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
     doLast {
         println "component-3 release is being excuted"
     }
}
tasks.named("releaseAll") { finalizedBy("c1release") }

task releaseAll() {
    println "Start releasing"
}

by calling gradle releaseAll it will execute c1release first then c2release then c3release

But I still wish ti know what kind of error you got with the cases you have included in your question.