What does transitive = true in Gradle exactly do (w.r.t. crashlytics)?

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What does Gradle transitive = true do exactly? It is not clear from the Gradle documentation. This is in the context of compile within build.gradle. In my case I’m depending Android’s crashlytics.

compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.2.2@aar') {
    transitive = true;
}

Several Gradle docs (here and here) imply that “transitive” defaults to true. Yet removing transitive = true results in transitive dependencies not being brought in (in particular KitGroup).

class file for io.fabric.sdk.android.KitGroup not found

The docs say it defaults to true, yet the actual behavior seems to be the opposite.

I am running Gradle 2.2.1. Perhaps the behavior changed between 2.2 and 2.4?

Edit: Related Transitive dependencies not resolved for aar library using gradle

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