On 27/09/2013, at 2:54 AM, Tibo <delor.thiba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for reacting 3 months later....
> 
> I was talking about the fact that overwrite=true behave differently in 1.4
> and 1.5 (See
> http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/replacing_tasks_overwrite_true_does_not_work_in_1_5)
> 
> That should be documented. If you want to get rid of maybe you should be
> more explict about it :)
> I have used the overwrite parameter because the documentation tell me to do
> so if I want to replace a task :
> http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/more_about_tasks.html#N10E7A
> 
> Maybe you should put a big warning in the documentation saying "This
> parameter might not behave as you expect"

+1 to some sort of advertisement to replacing tasks being not reliable.

We are in a bit of a tough spot as it's the only way out of some jams, but I 
think we should inform users to be careful here.

Anyone else agree?

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Luke Daley
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