> > Does spotless have an option to fork (like the old ant fork=true), >
I don't know but I don't think so. It's a plain plugin for gradle, with its own set of dependencies. Gradle plugins are not forked - they run within the process (much like ant tasks). > Are all gradle spotless users having to do these things? Can they be > somewhere other than this file? I don't think there is any other way. The problem is not even spotless itself - it's the google formatting code that is a dependency of spotless that is causing problems here. https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/tree/main/plugin-gradle#google-java-format https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/issues/834 You could run this plugin via methods other than the gradle integration layer (for example via forked ant). This has drawbacks though - no incremental inputs, worse reporting, etc. Dawid
