Shadow Version

4.0.2

Gradle Version

4.10.2

Expected Behavior

I believe it would make sense to exclude dependencies from a project that got excluded, because by excluding project, I think the intention is to make sure the project and its dependencies are not getting scanned/removed.

Actual Behavior

When using minimize with a subproject

            apply plugin: 'java'
            apply plugin: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow'
             shadowJar {
                minimize {
                    exclude(project(':client'))
                }
            }
             repositories { mavenCentral() }
            dependencies { compile project(':client') }

And client project looks like

 apply plugin: 'java'
 repositories { mavenCentral() }
dependencies { compile 'junit:junit:3.8.2' }

The classes in client are included in the JAR because we excluded them. However, dependencies of the project are not.