I cannot reproduce this. Can you provide a minimal reproducible example?

Hi Peter, I have created a very minimal example demonstrating the problem. Can I send you a zip file somehow through the forum?

The forum doesn't support attachments. Best use an external service like [Gist]([1]https://gist.github.com/) or GitHub and post the link here.
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I have uploaded the example to my google drive. Please download the example here:

[1]https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxgX3...
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[1] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxgX3GzSY7VFRldUTS1vUS1NZms/edit?usp=sharing

In my example, if you rename the upper level util project to ie utils, the code will compile. As it is now, the compilation fails.

Thanks for the example. This is indeed a bug. Some ways to work around:

• Use different values for `project.name` for the consuming and producing projects. Note that this doesn't mean that you need to rename any directories. Project names and directories can be configured independently in `settings.gradle`. (See `Settings` in the [Gradle Build Language Reference]([1]http://gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/in...).)
• Use different values for `project.group` for the consuming and producing projects, or don't set `project.group` at all.
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Here is what I found. When resolving a project dep, Gradle internally represents both the consuming and the producing project as a module (version), where the module's name is the project's name, and the module's group is the parent project's path (roughly speaking). However, once project.group is set, that is used for the module's group. If consuming and producing projects additionally have the same name, the same module version will be used for both of them, leading to troubles.

To reproduce:

settings.gradle:

include 'util', 'workbench:util'
// uncommenting next line solves the problem
// project(":util").name = "foo"

build.gradle:

allprojects {
  group = "foo" // not setting a group, or setting different groups, solves the problem
  apply plugin: "java" 
}

util/workbench/build.gradle:

dependencies{
    compile project(":util")
}

task debug << {
  configurations.compile.each { println it }
}

Run gradle debug from the top level and observe that the compile configuration contains the util/workbench Jar, not the util Jar. Tested with Gradle 1.0-1.4.

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