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does it change what happens at configuration time? I need to check.

I was trying to debug something during the configuration phase. but because I'd already run that task without the debug flag, configuration was skipped!

Would you expect

org.gradle.debug

to always invalidate the cache?

I think this was just one of those things that was surprising in the moment, but upon reflection (and conversation; thanks!) makes sense. It reminds me of when people complain about

test

not re-running their tests because Gradle has determined there's no reason to

Got it