So it looks like this might be workaround-able... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Szczepan Faber (JIRA)" <issues(a)gradle.org&gt; Date: Apr 4, 2011 10:46 AM Subject: [issues.gradle.org] Commented: (GRADLE-1174) The IdeaPlugin defines all of $buildDir as excluded To: <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; [ http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1174?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi...] Szczepan Faber commented on GRADLE-1174: ---------------------------------------- I think following workarounds should help: ideaModule { //manipulate the default excludeDirs: excludeDirs -= "someFolderIDontWantToExclude" //or prepare your own list of excludeDirs: excludeDirs = [project.file('.gradle'), "$project.buildDir/excludeMe"] as Set } up attempts to use, for example, generated sources such as from Antlr which writes to {{$buildDir/generated-src/antlr/}}. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira