What is the asterisk in dependencyReport?

Some dependencies in dependencyReport have an ‘(*)’ at the end of the line. No mention of what that means in either the report itself or in the task docs. What does it mean?

If it does mean something, it might be worth putting a line at the end of the report to say: * - this means bla bla bla

Philip

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 +--- org.apache.velocity:velocity-tools:2.0  |

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 +--- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.7.0  |

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 \--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.0.3 -> 1.1  |

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+--- log4j:log4j:1.2.12 -> 1.2.17 (*)  |

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+--- logkit:logkit:1.0.1  |

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+--- avalon-framework:avalon-framework:4.1.3  |

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\--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3  |

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 +--- commons-digester:commons-digester:1.8  |

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 +--- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.7.0 (*)  |

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 \--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-chain:commons-chain:1.1  |

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 +--- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.7.0 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-digester:commons-digester:1.6 -> 1.8 (*)  |

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 \--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.0.3 -> 1.1 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2 -> 3.2.1 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-validator:commons-validator:1.3.1  |

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 +--- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.7.0 (*)  |

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 +--- commons-digester:commons-digester:1.6 -> 1.8 (*)  |

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 \--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.0.4 -> 1.1 (*)  

The legend is printed at the bottom of the report. Can you confirm?

Nope, not there. Just did a gradle clean dR, same behavior Philip

  crotwell$ tail -10 build/reports/project/dependencies.txt

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 \--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3 (*)  +--- jetty:jetty:4.2.27  |

 \--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3 (*)  \--- junit:junit:4.8.1 (*)

 versionCompile - Classpath for compiling the version sources.  No dependencies

 versionRuntime - Classpath for running the compiled version classes.  No dependencies

 
  crotwell$ gradle --version

 ------------------------------------------------------------  Gradle 1.3  ------------------------------------------------------------

 Gradle build time: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:37:38 AM UTC  Groovy: 1.8.6  Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012  Ivy: 2.2.0  JVM: 1.6.0_37 (Apple Inc. 20.12-b01-434)  OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 x86_64

 

So nobody ever actually answered the question. Whether the legend is there or not, what does the asterisk mean?

It means that the tree view of the dependency graph is cut short at this point because that part of the graph was already listed earlier.

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