From 0c2b4f9ff3d177d98b1f0a3186b27cd7a6f31789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Earle <pickypg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:51:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updating Gradle cheatsheet

Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@94a2379d743b4badf215797544f42140e508b694
---
 GRADLE.CHEATSHEET.asciidoc | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GRADLE.CHEATSHEET.asciidoc b/GRADLE.CHEATSHEET.asciidoc
index d3f433e25c4..5efba3c932c 100644
--- a/GRADLE.CHEATSHEET.asciidoc
+++ b/GRADLE.CHEATSHEET.asciidoc
@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
-As a quick helper, below are the equivalent commands from maven to gradle. You can also run `gradle tasks` to see all tasks that are available to run.
+As a quick helper, below are the equivalent commands from `maven` to `gradle`. You can also run `gradle tasks` to see all tasks that are available to run.
 
-| Maven                       | Gradle      | Description         |
-| ----------------------------| ------------|---------------------|
-| `clean`                     | `clean`     |                     |
-| `verify`                    | `check`     |                     |
-| `verify -Dskip.unit.tests`  | `integTest` |                     |
-| `package -DskipTests`       | `assemble`  |                     |
-| `install -DskipTests`       | `install`   |                     |
+[cols="3*", options="header"]
+|====
+| Maven                       | Gradle      | Description
+| `clean`                     | `clean`     | Delete anything that exists already.
+| `test`                      | `test`      | Run all unit tests.
+| `verify`                    | `check`     | Run all unit tests, plus extra checks (e.g., line length)
+| `verify -Dskip.unit.tests`  | `integTest` | 
+| `package -DskipTests`       | `assemble`  | Output is in `${project.projectDir}/build/distributions`
+| `install -DskipTests`       | `install`   | 
+
+With Gradle, you can easily target specific `projects` to run commands against, and it will build all necessary dependencies to make it happen. For example, if you make a change to a specific test in the `x-pack` subproject, then you can specifically invoke its `test` task.
+
+[source,bash]
+----
+$ gradle :x-plugins:elasticsearch:x-pack:test -Dtests.class=*YourTests
+----
+
+This applies to any command that follows the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for its dependencies. The above example would trigger Elasticsearch `core` to be built, as well as the test framework and any other dependencies that it may have.