[GRADLE-627] Gradle gives poor message for no build.gradle Created: 09/Sep/09  Updated: 24/Jan/17  Resolved: 24/Jan/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 0.8
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Russel Winder Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0


 Description   

When Gradle is started in a directory with no build.gradle file, the somewhat unhelpful message below is given. I think the situation where the file is not found should be handled specially so as to give a very specific error message.

> gradle

FAILURE: Could not determine which tasks to execute.

  • What went wrong:
    No tasks have been specified and root project 'russel' has not defined any default tasks.
  • Try:
    Run with -t to get a list of available tasks.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 1.436 secs

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 Comments   
Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 24/Jan/17 ]

Gradle now automatically invokes the help task which renders information about the command line usage.

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