"dotnet publish {ProjectDirectory}" no longer works

[pranavkm]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new project
2. Restore and run dotnet publish <directory with proj file>

Expected behavior

Publish succeeds

Actual behavior

Publish fails with

MSBUILD : error MSB1009: Project file does not exist.
Switch: D:\temp\msbuild-test\src2

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview5-004384)

Product Information:
 Version:            1.0.0-preview5-004384
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  05b448944c

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.14393
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64

[TheRealPiotrP]

That's right. MSBuild accepts input of project by either path to *.*proj or by the working directory. Since the SDK can be executed by CLI, VS, MSBuild.exe, etc. we did not want to bifurcate the user experience by providing a different convention on CLI. We may revisit this post-1.0.