In addition to @RaGe's answer may be the situation I faced where i had a global git ignore that was ignoring .jar
files and so the gradle wrapper jar was never being committed. Thus I was getting that error on the Jenkins server after an attempted /var/lib/jenkins/my_project/gradlew build
. I had to explicitly force an add of the jar and then commit:
git add -f gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar