I am mainly using Gradle to build projects and I am also using a custom docker image to run Java based jobs. The docker image pre-configures some Gradle/Maven settings for the root user by placing /root/.gradle/gradle.properties, /root/.gradle/init.gradle, /root/.m2/settings.xml and /root/.mavenrc inside the image.

Now if I want to cache Maven data it is relatively simple by caching /root/.m2/repository. However for Gradle the .gradle folder contains many directories and I would need to define a cache per directory. Ideally I want to cache .gradle and exclude some files like the ones mentioned above. However if OneDev would allow excludes it must also make sure that unpacking .gradle does not replace the existing .gradle folder and we do not loose files already present in that folder. Otherwise the running job container would not have the pre-configured Gradle settings anymore.

.gradle contents:

Instead of excludes OneDev could alternatively allow multiple cache paths in a single cache. Currently it only allows a single cache path.