I see this feature has a long history and is on the roadmap for "someday". I would like to add my desire to see this feature in a release hopefully not too far away.

For information, our use case; when running long database updates, in the event of a failure its often helpful to have a log file to digest and debug (sometimes non developers run these tasks). As some database deployments can overrun the size of the buffer, a text file would be desirable.

We are in the process of transforming the ant and groovy file for running our integration test to gradle.

In ant we use the record target to write multiple logfiles with different log levels. One file with little information is automatically examined to point out the failed test case. A verbose file might be used by a developer to correct programming errors.

We really like to give a destination for the log files. A plus would be to have different files depending on the log level or other things, like the used logger. A configurable log4j.properties could also get the job done.

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I feel this would be a valuable addition. Let's says that there is some flaky build code or tests, having a more complete build/test log on disk would simplify debugging when reproducing is not always easy.

I created https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1005 for this.

Thanks for creating the issue on GitHub, @Stalle.