Looking for some advice / best practice here: I us...

# gradle

[Endre Deak]

Looking for some advice / best practice here: I use gradle locally, but we do have a custom build script which builds a docker image and executes gradle commands there. Now, locally it seems convenient to increase gradle memory via -Xmx4096m but when I do the build in Docker then I don’t need this amount of memory.

What’s the right way to tell my local gradle to use that amount of memory outside of my gradle,properties file in my project? I use IntelliJ IDEA and command line too, so ideally when I kick off a gradle command via the IDE or just type gradle command, the same settings would be picked up, but when it runs within the docker image, then it just ignores it.

[ephemient]

~/.gradle/gradle.properties (GRADLE_USER_HOME) takes precedence over local properties

[Fleshgrinder]

You could add it to your $GRADLE_HOME/gradle.properties file, but then it's used for every Gradle run on your system. Not sure if that would bother you. Alternatively you could use something like https://direnv.net/ but not sure regarding IDEA support. Of course you could set it there separately, but that can get annoying quickly...

[Endre Deak]

thanks!