I frequently find myself down inside either the src or build directories, and wish to rerun gradle to build the project. Currently if you are in a subdirectory, you get a "FAILURE: Could not determine which tasks to execute." which is a little misleading as the real problem is that there was no build.gradle file in the current directory.
It would be very nice to be able to run gradle from within a subdirectory and have gradle by default search up the directory stack for the build.gradle and then run as if I did a cd to that directory. This would be similar to the settings file "search upwards".
I know the p argument allows something like this, but you still have to know where you are and how many "../"s to put in the arg. If you don't like the idea of gradle searching parent directories by default, then perhaps this could be accomplished by having -p without a following arg or "-pup" mean that gradle searches up the stack.
Just trying to save my dot key from an early death. 