Default excludes / includes in Jar task

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Found what I was looking for: sourceSets.main.java.filter.includes is “[**/*.java]” by default.

What really confuses me is that sourceSets.main.java.includes is “[]” by default. This comes from https://docs.gradle.org/nightly/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/SourceDirectorySet.html extending from https://docs.gradle.org/nightly/javadoc/org/gradle/api/tasks/util/PatternFilterable.html.

I followed the hint from here to copy files from sourceSets.main.java too, doing it like that now:

sourceSets
{
    main
    {
        resources
        {
            source(sourceSets.main.java)
            filter.include("**/*.*")
            filter.exclude("**/*.java", "**/*.log")
            filter.exclude("**/.svn/*", "**/.git*")
        }
    }
}

This ensures that resources files under src/main/java are copied into the JAR because the task processResources is taking into account every source directory configured for the source set sourceSets.main.resources.