Hi Gradle Community, I apologize if this is a trivial question. Is it possible to tell Gradle to clear build cache and build everything from scratch (e.g. gradle --clear-build-cache)? There’s an option to manually remove the cache folder but that seems so hacky and “gradle clean” only removes the …

How to clean build cache?

Stefan_Wolf (Stefan Wolf) November 4, 2019, 5:22pm 2

Hi Kevin,

there currently isn’t a built-in solution for removing the local build cache folder. What is your use-case for removing the folder? Do you have a bad artifact in there?

Cheers,
Stefan

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