How do I override a subproject dependency?

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1

In my subproject, I have a dependency

dependencies {
    compile 'group:name:1.0'
}

I want my root project to replace it with a custom subproject that exposes the same API as the dependency

project(':subproject') {
    dependencies {
        compile project(':namecompatible')
    }
}

Is there any way to do this?

2

The ability to replace external module dependencies with project dependencies is coming in Gradle 2.5. You can download the latest nightly and try this out now if you’d like.

http://gradle.org/docs/nightly/release-notes#dependency-substitution-rules