Gradle release composite build with a release order - gradle

Question

I have a gradle composite build in following directory structure.
.
├── component-1
├── component-2
├── component-3
└── composite-build
Here, all components are multi-project builds. Each component has implemented the release plugin and can be released individually. The composite-build has following settings.gradle.
rootProject.name = 'composite-build'
includeBuild '../component-1'
includeBuild '../component-2'
includeBuild '../component-3'
I want to execute release task of each component in a specific order but I couldn't find a proper way. Following are some cases that I tried and failed. In these cases individual release tasks are also failing due to conflicting git tag commits done by release plugin.
Case 1:
In build.gradle
task releaseAll {
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-1').task(':release')
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-2').task(':release')
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-3').task(':release')
}
Case 2:
In build.gradle
task releaseComponent1 {
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-1').task(':release')
}
task releaseComponent2 {
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-2').task(':release')
}
task releaseComponent3 {
dependsOn gradle.includedBuild('component-3').task(':release')
}
releaseComponent2.configure {
mustRunAfter releaseComponent1
}
releaseComponent3.configure {
mustRunAfter releaseComponent2
}
task releaseAll {
dependsOn releaseComponent1
dependsOn releaseComponent2
dependsOn releaseComponent3
}
Sample error message:
> Task :component-1:component-1-release:preTagCommit FAILED
Running [git, commit, -m, [Gradle Release Plugin] - pre tag commit: 'component-1-0.1.10'., -a] produced an error: []
Running [git, push, --porcelain, origin, main] produced an error: [error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git']
> Task :component-1:release FAILED
Release process failed, reverting back any changes made by Release Plugin.
Running [git, checkout, gradle.properties] produced an error: [error: pathspec 'gradle.properties' did not match any file(s) known to git]
1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':component-1:component-1-release:preTagCommit'.
> Failed to push to remote - [To https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git
! refs/heads/main:refs/heads/main [remote rejected] (cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/main': is at <xxxx> but expected <yyyy>)
Done
][error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git'
]

Answer 1

There is always an option with gradle where you can automate and link task execution with finalizedBy and you can test this simple code to check how it work :
task A() {
println 'taskA'
}
task B() {
println 'taskB'
}
tasks.named("B") { finalizedBy("A") }
task C() {
println 'taskC'
}
tasks.named("C") { finalizedBy("B") }
This way, by calling gradle C it will backtrack to execute A then B then C
Same way, You can do 3 tasks to get the desired ordered execution like this
task c1release(type:Exec) {
workingDir '.\\component-1'
commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
doLast {
println "component-1 release is being excuted"
}
}
tasks.named("c1release") { finalizedBy("c2release") }
task c2release(type:Exec) {
workingDir '.\\component-2'
commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
doLast {
println "component-2 release is being excuted"
}
}
tasks.named("c2release") { finalizedBy("c3release") }
task c3release(type:Exec) {
workingDir '.\\component-3'
commandLine("cmd", "/c", "gradle", "release")
doLast {
println "component-3 release is being excuted"
}
}
tasks.named("releaseAll") { finalizedBy("c1release") }
task releaseAll() {
println "Start releasing"
}
by calling gradle releaseAll it will execute c1release first then c2release then c3release
But I still wish ti know what kind of error you got with the cases you have included in your question.