has anyone already solved the problem of gradle 8's zip file being too large to check-in to github? My goal is to eliminate downloading the file from gradle during every CircleCI execution (and Jenkins execution):

remote: error: See <https://gh.io/lfs> for more information.
remote: error: File gradle/wrapper/gradle-8.11-bin.zip is 130.57 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB
remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - <https://git-lfs.github.com>.

Fwiw, I build inside Docker containers, and use the Gradle images from the Docker Hub, so using the

gradle

command (instead of

./gradlew

) inside a

gradle:8.11-jdk21

container will use the Gradle from the Docker image: the "cache" is your Docker image cache. (I also add steps to the pipelines that run

gradle wrapper

and check whether that modifies the

gradlew

and

gradle/wrapper/

of the project, to make sure things are in sync between the CI pipeline and the wrapper that the developers rely on)

I like this idea. Thank you.

We have an internal Jenkins library to make it easier (that also sets up an init script to use our repository manager for instance), so our pipelines look like:

// Keep in sync with the Gradle wrapper
def gradleImageVersion = '8.14.2-jdk21'
// ...
    stage('Validate Gradle Wrapper') {
      steps {
        gradleInsideDocker(imageVersion: gradleImageVersion) {
          sh 'gradle wrapper'
        }
        verifyUnmodified('gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties') {
          setGerritReview unsuccessfulMessage: 'Version of Gradle differs between Jenkinsfiles and the Gradle wrapper'
        }
      }
      post {
        unsuccessful {
          sh 'git restore -- gradlew* gradle/wrapper/'
        }
      }
    }
    stage('Build') {
      steps {
        gradleInsideDocker(imageVersion: gradleImageVersion) {
          sh 'gradle build'
        }
      }
    }