gradlew build --fail-fast fails

[axelfontaine]

Expected Behavior

gradlew build --fail-fast runs the build and fails fast on first broken test

Current Behavior

> Unknown command-line option '--fail-fast'

Note that gradlew test --fail-fast works

Context

I wanted to speed up broken CI runs and added this to Github Action's yml file

Steps to Reproduce

Try the command above on a Kotlin project

Your Environment

Gradle 8.0.2

[ov7a]

Right now you can do this via providing all the needed tasks with their configuration options in a command line like this:

gradle build test --fail-fast

But if you have have other tests tasks, you should provide them in a command line as well. Do you want Gradle to support --fail-fast globally?

[axelfontaine]

In the docs there is zero indication that --fail-fast can only be used when explicitly invoking a test task.

So either the docs must be fixed or the behavior must be changed to allow this globally.

[ov7a]

--fail-fast is a test task option, but you are right, the docs can be improved.

Would you benefit from having a global setting or you are ok with current behavior?

[axelfontaine]

In my case a global setting would be better as I could then simply invoke gradle build --fail-fastin CI and have all tasks execute in the usual order.

[ov7a]

Thank you for your interest in Gradle!

This feature request is in the backlog of the relevant team but this area of Gradle is currently not a focus one so it might take a while before it gets implemented.