Reverting to 1.21 was our choice; builds fixed.

same issue here (Jenins 1.506, Gradle 1.5, Ubuntu Linux 12.04)

any chances on fixing this bug?

BTW. "fixed" it with the following snippet run before gradle tasks:

cp /home/jenkins/.gradle/gradle.properties gradle.properties.global
cat gradle.properties.global >> gradle.properties
rm gradle.properties.global

Same problem here with Jenkins 1.480.3, Gradle 1.4 on Windows XP 32bit SP3.

We want to use a global GRADLE_USER_HOME that is not project specific.

As a workaround we reverted to 1.21.

Could you make this feature (setting GRADLE_USER_HOME) optional, please?

Also could you log the GRADLE_USER_HOME value?

Thanks,

The above commit is certainly the one that broke this and here is the pull request:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/gradle-plugin/pull/12

It appears that the gradle plugin has changed the way gradle works and
has taken a default that is different than gradle's default. I would
not expect the plugin to have different defaults than the actual tool,
it leads to confusion when things don't work like is documented online.

I know I can override the GRADLE_USER_HOME variable with the -g switch
and a few other methods, which is what the author of the pull request
should have done, -g $WORKSPACE.

Its like the git plugin suddenly changed and now if you leave branches blank
it only checks master instead of all branches.

Another workaround would be putting -g /home/[build user]/.gradle in the switches.

+1 also a problem for us, global properties & nexus creds were in $HOME/.gradle, had to revert to 1.21

+1: same problem that $HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties is used for credentials. What's the reason for setting GRADLE_USER_HOME to job's workspace? We are making heavy use of gradle wrapper. Gradle distributions being installed per job instead of being shared nastily impacts the storage size.

This is also a problem for us. However, I reverted back to version 1.21 but the file is still not being found. When in the HOME/.gradle directory.

Also, why would the plugin have different defaults to the gradle tool itself?

It breaks our builds too since we depend on $HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties too