Composite builds using directly github repo location

We have a microservice architecture and with number of dependent projects for each microservices. Lets say, in our case, we might have library in a separate repo and microservice in a separate repo. I was exploring on whether any possblities of mentioning the library as a includeBuild using the librarry github link. Something like below

//settings.gradle

includeBuild "github.com/myorg/utilibrepo"

Is this supported in gradle, instead of donwloading the dependcies as a gitsubmodules and then doing a inlcudebuild the above option will be straighforward (like import options in golang)

Thanks,
Mawy

You can achieve something like that with source dependencies. There are however limitations on this feature, so applicability will depend on your use case.