When I configure a job to use the gradlewrapper gradlew gets changed (and possibly a bunch of directories created).

This is a problem at least to me, since I'd like to use the job for releasing and the release plugin checks that the workingcopy is unmodified (which I can disable, but which is actually a useful and important feature to get reproducable builds)

Here is a stackoverflow question, created by myself regarding the issue ( http://stackoverflow.com/q/15847518/66686 ):

The plugin starts by checking if my working copy is clean, so that only properly versioned stuff gets released.

This works just fine on my local machine. But when I try the same thing in a Jenkins job, the build fails complaining various stuff is changed in the workplace. I decided that a lot of stuff was just internally used by jenkins and added it to `gitignore`:

caches/
native/
wrapper/

But it also considers `gradlew` as changed:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':checkCommitNeeded'.
  > You have uncommitted files:
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  M gradlew
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