I use gradle in my microservice project. When I open project in IntelliJ IDEA, I see "often" (a few times per month) missing dependencies even I downloaded them in the past. With tens of microservicies, it is painful to open project, see half of dependencies are missing and need to download them again. I think it is due to cache cleaning as described https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/directory_layout.html . If yes, I want to know, if there is possibility to tune parameters, so it does not clean itself so often (yes, one month is very often).

CodePudding user response：

Cache cleanup can only be disable at the time of writing (Gradle 7.2). For this you need to create the $GRADLE_USER_HOME/gradle.properties file with the following content:

org.gradle.cache.cleanup=false

If not configured explicitly, $GRADLE_USER_HOME points to .gradle in your user's home directory (~/.gradle, C:\Users\Username, etc.).

Feature request for fine-granular cache cleanup policy is filed in Make periodic cache cleanup retention times configurable #7018.