Why should the Gradle Wrapper be committed to VCS?

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From Gradle\'s documentation: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.wrapper.Wrapper.html

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Old question, fresh answer. If you don't upgrade gradle often (most of us don't), it's better to commit it to VCS. And the main reason for me is to increase the build speed on the CI server. Nowadays, most of the projects are getting built and installed by CI servers, different server instance every time.

If you don't commit it, CI server will download a jar for every build and it significantly increases a build time. There are other ways to handle this problem, but I find this one the easiest to maintain.