James Britt wrote: > Joel VanderWerf wrote: > > > > No idea. One possible solution is to put a "stub" rakefile in the dir, > > and the stub requires the main rakefile. Then (IIRC) the pwd during the > > rake tasks will be that of the stub. But maybe you don't want to scatter > > stubs all over the place. > > Right, that's the whole point. For example, I have a Rake task that > will do an svn commit. I've also aliased rake to r , so I can do this > to commit code: > > $ r com This is my log message how are you accessing "This is my log message" in your task? t.