I have some strange behaviour with

Sync

task. Let's say I have a

Sync

task with destination folder

build/gitPublications/main

and I have a

preserve

block with

include '.git/**

What I found is if there is no

.gradle

project cache folder present and I execute that task it will delete the

build/gitPublications/main

folder even if there is content in

build/gitPublications/main/.git

saying that

Deleting stale output file: /path/to/build/gitPublications/main

. Even if

build

folder is deleted (gradle clean). then next it will behave correctly. It is only when

.gradle

is not present. Anyone ever seen this?

Can you post a reproducer? If this is a bug, you may want to file a Github issue.