How to understand the output of command 'gradle dependencies'?

Question

There is part of the output:

output of gradle dependencies

What does the symbols ('+','\','->','()','(*)') exactly mean?

Answer 1

+, -, | and \ are just used to draw the tree - it's a kind of ASCII art.

When it comes to (*) and -> please refer to this question and answer.

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TL;DR

(*) - is used to indicate that particular dependency is described somewhere else in the tree

-> - is used to point the dependency that wins in version conflict.