In my project, if I use the ratchetFrom argument when using spotless then the gradle daemon requires 4GB more heap than without it. The size of the repo on git is 130MB. Heap analysis shows the 4GB to not be able to get collected.

I am using gradle 6.6.1, my plugin version is 5.6.1.

My OS is Windows, but this occurs on Linux also.

Sorry I can't link the repo, it is private. It is a large multi module Scala project using gradle as the build tool, we apply the spotless plugin to most of the modules, the spotless configuration looks something like so (some fields redacted)

spotless {
  ratchetFrom 'origin/master'
  scala {
    target fileTree('.') {
      include '**/*.scala'
      exclude '**/build/**'
     }
   trimTrailingWhitespace()
   endWithNewline()
   scalafmt("$scalafmt").configFile("$rootDir/.scalafmt.conf")
  }
}

No errors are emitted when running.

Sorry I have not been able to artificially replicate the problem, it does not seem to be related to the size of the repo.