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Is there any way in 1.4+ to figure out why kapt is non-incremental for a build? I searched previous messages and people suggest downgrading to 1.3x which is basically impossible in our app

`./gradlew -Pkapt.verbose=true` (or the equivalent in gradle.properties) should print out some information about that

yes i see `Incremental annotation processing (apt mode): false` but it doesn’t tell me why it didn’t run incrementally

in this blog post from 2019 <https://medium.com/@daniel_novak/making-incremental-kapt-work-speed-up-your-kotlin-projects-539db1a771cf> it says that it should log the processors that aren’t incremental but it doesn’t appear to anymore

and you haven't turned off incremental kapt `kapt.incremental.apt=false` or incremental compilation `kapt.incremental=false`? hmm.

i’m looking into the `kapt` source code and it looks like there are some other cases when it will turn off incremental kapt

```if (logger.isInfoEnabled) {
            val time = "Took ${System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime}ms."
            when {
                previousSnapshot == UnknownSnapshot -&gt;
                    <http://logger.info|logger.info>("Initializing classpath information for KAPT. $time")
                classpathChanges == KaptClasspathChanges.Unknown -&gt;
                    <http://logger.info|logger.info>("Unable to use existing data, re-initializing classpath information for KAPT. $time")
                else -&gt; {
                    classpathChanges as KaptClasspathChanges.Known
                    <http://logger.info|logger.info>("Full list of impacted classpath names: ${classpathChanges.names}. $time")
                }
            }
        }```


so i wonder if i’m hitting one of those cases where the classpath changes unexpectedely

`./gradlew --info` (or `-i`) would show those (and a lot of other stuff)

i do see this in the logs: `Unable to use existing data, re-initializing classpath information for KAPT. Took 781ms.`

i guess if any files get added to the classpath `kapt` can’t run incrementally? earlier in the logs i see:
```Task ':xxxxxx:kaptDebugKotlin' is not up-to-date because:
  Input property 'classpathStructure$kotlin_gradle_plugin' file /Users/shasha/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/c10f7f9ca3457239899004135492aca1/transformed/output.bin has been added.
  Input property 'classpathStructure$kotlin_gradle_plugin' file /Users/shasha/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/418b18a8eb2bb12415828065185d47c2/transformed/output.bin has been added.
  Input property 'classpathStructure$kotlin_gradle_plugin' file /Users/shasha/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/0e350fdc77bcd8b6930cec8da974a4e2/transformed/output.bin has been added.```
i don’t actually know what those transformed files are

xxxxxx:kaptDebugKotlin shouldn’t be up-to-date if you changed something in your sources. You changed something right? Or you see it every time you run the task?

<@U015RV7TM60> maybe you can help? At least point to some direction what should be checked first