Is it enough to run `detektMain` gradle task, or is it also required to run `detekt`?

# detekt

[Peter]

Is it enough to run detektMain gradle task, or is it also required to run detekt?

[marschwar]

As always - that depends. detektMain will only check the production code, not the tests. If all you want to check, then that is sufficient. The rules that are being checked by detekt are a subset of those run by detektMain, so it is not necessary to run both when configured for the same source files.

[Brais Gabin]

In my case I always execute detektMain and detektTest. Never detekt.

[Jonas]

I added following task for convenience:

tasks.register("detektDebugAll") {
    dependsOn("detektDebug", "detektDebugUnitTest", "detektDebugAndroidTest")
}

Also use this one in a pre-push hook then.

[Brais Gabin]

Yes, I have exactly the same.

[Peter]

I see. Thanks for info 🍺

[CRamsan]

Hello everyone, I just came across this thread as I had a similar question. My understanding from the Getting Started page was that detekt was a super-set of detektMain . But in practice this is not what I am seeing and instead what I see is what @marschwar mentions(detektMain is a superset of detek).
But this seems like a bug to me, Even the page described them as:
detektMain - Similar to detekt, but runs only on the main source set.
I will file a bug and see what the detekt team says.

[CRamsan]

Never mind, I misunderstood type resolution, so the behaviour of detekt and detektMain is described here.