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Okay. The problem is solved. The problem is org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException is not an Exception, it is an Error, and it was escaping my try { } catch (Exception e) { }. This is a rookie mistake I should not have made, but in my defense, somehow the same basic code was throwing a different exception during `gradle sync` than it was during `gradle build` (?!), so since the try { } worked in sync I assumed the problem had to be some other git invocation somewhere else I had not yet found