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## Useful tips

### How Gradle Works

We have [a series of blog](https://blog.gradle.org/how-gradle-works-1) that explains how Gradle works.
This may help you better understand and contribute to Gradle.

### Debugging Gradle

const checkPattern = pattern => pattern
    && isString(pattern)
    && !REGEX_TEST_BLANK_LINE.test(pattern)
    && !REGEX_INVALID_TRAILING_BACKSLASH.test(pattern)

    // > A line starting with # serves as a comment.
    && pattern.indexOf('#') !== 0

const splitPattern = pattern => pattern.split(REGEX_SPLITALL_CRLF)

class IgnoreRule {
    constructor (
        origin,
        pattern,