if (previousNodes != null) {
            for (ResolutionNode previous : previousNodes) {
                try {
                    if (previous.isActive()) {
                        // Version mediation
                        VersionRange previousRange = previous.getArtifact().getVersionRange();
                        VersionRange currentRange = node.getArtifact().getVersionRange();

As such, each minor Gradle release causes the previous minor releases in the same major version to become end-of-life (EOL). EOL releases do not receive bug fixes or feature backports.

For major versions, Gradle will backport critical fixes and security fixes to the last minor in the previous major version.

# if we change the way caching works, we want the test to fail
# instead of accidentally reusing the cached information from a
# previous test run.
env GOCACHE=$WORK${/}.cache
mkdir $GOCACHE

go build -x runtime/cgo

	# Tell our fake clang to stop working.
	# Previously, 'go build -x runtime/cgo' would continue to
	# succeed because both the broken clang and the non-broken one

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== Incremental builds

An *incremental build* is a build that avoids running tasks whose inputs have not changed since the previous build.
Re-executing such tasks is unnecessary if they would only re-produce the same output.

For incremental builds to work, tasks must define their inputs and outputs.

     */
    @Nonnull
    Optional<Source> locate(@Nonnull Path dir);

    /**
     * Parse the model obtained previously by a previous call to {@link #locate(Path)}.
     *
     * @param source the source to parse, never {@code null}
     * @param options possible parsing options, may be {@code null}

  /**
   * Maps the specified class to the specified value. Does <i>not</i> associate this value with any
   * of the class's supertypes.
   *
   * @return the value previously associated with this class (possibly {@code null}), or {@code
   *     null} if there was no previous entry.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @CheckForNull
  <T extends B> T putInstance(Class<@NonNull T> type, @ParametricNullness T value);

  /**
   * Maps the specified class to the specified value. Does <i>not</i> associate this value with any
   * of the class's supertypes.
   *
   * @return the value previously associated with this class (possibly {@code null}), or {@code
   *     null} if there was no previous entry.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @CheckForNull
  <T extends B> T putInstance(Class<@NonNull T> type, @ParametricNullness T value);

            if (sameDependencies) {
                LOGGER.debug("Filter {} excludes same dependencies as previous {}. Dependencies left = {}", newResolutionFilter, previousTraversalExclusions, oldStates);
            } else {

    }

    private class DefaultIncrementalCompileSourceProcessor implements IncrementalCompileSourceProcessor {
        private final CompilationState previous;
        private final BuildableCompilationState current = new BuildableCompilationState();
        private final List<File> toRecompile = new ArrayList<File>();
        private final Set<File> existingHeaders = new HashSet<File>();

    // Whether a previous access of this resource already tracks the last
    // unknown read(s).
    bool are_last_unknown_reads_tracked = false;
    // Whether a previous write access of this resource already tracks the last
    // unknown write.
    bool is_last_unknown_write_tracked_by_write = false;
    // Whether a previous read or write access of this resource already tracks