Does not support excluding dependent tasks after Gradle 6.7.1

[nigelsim]

As also mentioned here and probably related to this if you are running Gradle up to 6.7.1 you can exclude tasks from the command line

./gradlew release -x test

However, after this release this stops working.

I realise there is limited maintenance happening on this project currently, but are there any pointers on how this might be solved?

[nigelsim]

I think a workable workaround is to change the release.buildTasks to match what you want to do, but there will be a limit to what can be done here.

[apoguy]

@nigelsim did you find a workaround for this? I followed you replies in the linked issues in you first post but wasn't able to exclude tests.

[icyerasor]

Same problem here.
I can work around it by just defining to execute assemble instead of a build i think.

    release {
        buildTasks.add(":mySubmodule:assemble")
    }