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package org.gradle.api.tasks;

/**
 * Enumeration of different path handling strategies for task properties.
 *
 * @see PathSensitive
 *
 * @since 3.1
 */
public enum PathSensitivity {
    /**
     * Consider the full path of files and directories.
     *
     * This will prevent the task's outputs from being shared across different workspaces via the build cache.
     */
    ABSOLUTE,

    /**
     * Use the location of the file related to a hierarchy.
     *
     * 
     *     For files in the root of the file collection, the file name is used as the normalized path.
     *     For directories in the root of the file collection, an empty string is used as normalized path.
     *     For files in directories in the root of the file collection, the normalized path is the relative path of the file to the root directory containing it.
     * 
     *
     * 

     * Example: The property is an input directory.
     * 
     *     The path of the input directory is ignored.
     *     The path of the files in the input directory are considered relative to the input directory.
     * 
     */
    RELATIVE,

    /**
     * Consider only the name of files and directories.
     */
    NAME_ONLY,

    /**
     * Ignore file paths and directories altogether.
     *
     * 
     *     When used on an {@literal @}{@link org.gradle.work.Incremental} input, instead of
     *     {@link org.gradle.work.ChangeType#MODIFIED} events Gradle may produce
     *     {@link org.gradle.work.ChangeType#ADDED} and {@link org.gradle.work.ChangeType#REMOVED} events.
     *     This is because by ignoring the path of the individual inputs it cannot identify what
     *     has been modified.
     * 
     */
    NONE
}