WIth --info, the end of the daemon log consists of 244 identical lines that look like this:
Cached resource is up-to-date (lastModified: Fri Jan 18 13:45:06 CET 2013). [HTTP: http://x.x.x.x/nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/artifact-1.0-20130118.124506-255.pom]
The end of the daemon log with --debug looks like this:
23:47:53.524 [INFO] [org.gradle.api.internal.externalresource.transfer.DefaultCacheAwareExternalResourceAccessor] Cached resource is up-to-date (lastModified: Fri Jan 18 13:45:06 CET 2013). [HTTP: http://x.x.x.x/nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/artifact-1.0-20130118.124506-255.pom]
23:47:53.527 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver] Downloading http://x.x.x.x/nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/artifact-1.0-20130118.124506-255.pom to /private/var/folders/7r/lwvxzqm10l716wzmh50_9_gm0000h2/T/gradle_download3449865593438265035bin
23:47:53.532 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Waiting to acquire exclusive lock on artifact cache (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23).
23:47:53.534 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Lock acquired.
23:47:53.537 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Opening cache artifact-at-url.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/artifact-at-url.bin)
23:47:53.539 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Closing cache artifact-at-url.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/artifact-at-url.bin)
23:47:53.541 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on artifact cache (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23).
23:47:53.550 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Waiting to acquire exclusive lock on artifact cache (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23).
23:47:53.552 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Lock acquired.
23:47:53.553 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.UserResolverChain] Attempting to resolve module ‘group#artifact;1.0-SNAPSHOT’ using repositories [nexus, MavenLocal, MavenRepo, GitHub, nexus2]
23:47:53.555 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Opening cache dynamic-revisions.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/dynamic-revisions.bin)
23:47:53.557 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Opening cache module-metadata.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/module-metadata.bin)
23:47:53.559 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Closing cache module-metadata.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/module-metadata.bin)
23:47:53.561 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.btree.BTreePersistentIndexedCache] Closing cache dynamic-revisions.bin (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23/dynamic-revisions.bin)
23:47:53.563 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on artifact cache (/Users/jenkins/.gradle/caches/artifacts-23).
23:47:53.564 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.externalresource.transport.http.HttpResourceAccessor] Constructing external resource: http://x.x.x.x/nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
23:47:53.566 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.externalresource.transport.http.HttpClientHelper] Performing HTTP GET: http://x.x.x.x/nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
23:47:53.568 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingClientConnectionManager] Connection request: [route: {}->http://x.x.x.x][total kept alive: 0; route allocated: 0 of 2; total allocated: 0 of 20]
23:47:53.570 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingClientConnectionManager] Connection leased: [id: 1096][route: {}->http://x.x.x.x][total kept alive: 0; route allocated: 1 of 2; total allocated: 1 of 20]
23:47:53.571 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator] Connecting to x.x.x.x:80
23:47:53.574 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies] CookieSpec selected: best-match
23:47:53.575 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAuthCache] Auth cache not set in the context
23:47:53.577 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestTargetAuthentication] Target auth state: UNCHALLENGED
23:47:53.579 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestProxyAuthentication] Proxy auth state: UNCHALLENGED
23:47:53.580 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.impl.client.SystemDefaultHttpClient] Attempt 1 to execute request
23:47:53.582 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection] Sending request: GET /nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml HTTP/1.1
23:47:53.584 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.headers] >> GET /nexus/content/groups/public/group/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml HTTP/1.1
23:47:53.585 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.headers] >> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
23:47:53.587 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.headers] >> Host: x.x.x.x
23:47:53.588 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.headers] >> Connection: Keep-Alive
23:47:53.590 [DEBUG] [org.apache.http.headers] >> User-Agent: Gradle/1.4-rc-1 (Mac OS X;10.7.5;x86_64) (Apple Inc.;1.6.0_29;20.4-b02-402)
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