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Do you also have other skipwhenempty inputfile properties?
iirc the task is only skipped if all of them are empty, but I might remember wrongly.

interesting. you _seem_ to be right as it is working now. Didn't think about that and havn't found any documentation for that behaviour. thx

In the table with all the annotations:
&gt; Used with @InputFiles or @InputDirectory to tell Gradle to skip the task if the corresponding files or directory are empty, *along with all other input files declared with this annotation*.
&gt; 
And in the JavaDoc of the annotation:
&gt; If all of the inputs declared with this annotation are empty, the task will be skipped with a "NO-SOURCE" message.

It's like me asking in the super market "where did you hide product X now?" and the employees lead me to the place where I looked 5 times already. :smile: