repository/ is a Maven repository that contains internal Gradle plugins | |
necessary to build Gradle projects such as tools/base. | |
It contains the plugins and their dependencies in order to not require | |
downloading anything from an external repository. | |
It is updated by running the following commands: | |
$ cd tools/base/misc/distrib_plugins/buildSrc | |
$ gradle updatePrebuilts | |
$ cd .. | |
$ gradle cloneArtifacts |