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add warning if target has `**/*`

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kotlin
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by examining the Androidify root build.gradle.kts and reproduce the configuration-time comparison described with and without com.diffplug.spotless. Trace how a target containing */ is configured, then define the warning behavior and verify that it appears for that target without adding unnecessary warnings.

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Description

bug

As part of writing up a post on expected Gradle configuration performance I found that com.diffplug.spotless causes 17 second regression in configuration performance Androidify Gradle project.

Simply removing com.diffplug.spotless from root build.gradle.kts and rerunning the Gradle profiler we get configuration time from 26s to 9s.

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