ivy.xml contains the 'transitive' property of configurations. http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/conf.html

However if my build contains {{ configurations.compile.transitive = false }} it is not included in the output ivy.xml.

Expected result: ivy.xml that contains:

<conf name="compile" transitive="false" visibility="public" ... />

I don't think it is a big deal for gradle projects that consume the artifacts. However in case the artifact is consumed by other build framework it may be useful information.