Adds mima dependency check to your gradle project it looks for the previous version by looking at the git version tags:

mima {
    direction = "backward"  can be "forward" , "backward" or "both"
    //makes the task fail if there was an error detected    
    failOnException = false 
    //the versions to check, defaults to the latest version detected in the git tag.
    compareToVersions = ["0.0.0", "0.1.0"]
}

supported versions:

• V0.0.0 suports gradle 4.9 to 6.3

to run the tests pull this repo,

• install sdkman. curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
• go to cd src/gradleTest/test-projec
• sh test.sh

to add a new version

• add your version toversions array in test.sh and run it.