--gruntfile flag not respected

[jefflembeck]

If I run the command

grunt --gruntfile="path/to/Gruntfile.js"

from a folder that is not where Grunt or a Gruntfile is located, a fatal error is automatically thrown.

The same thing happens with:

grunt --base="path/to/gruntfile/dir"

These should be able to be run without referencing Grunt.

[tkellen]

ping @cowboy

[cowboy]

Now that we're using require to determine where the Grunt lib has been installed, you unfortunately can't run the grunt command from a directory that isn't a subdirectory of where Grunt has been installed. If that makes any sense.

One way we could work around this is to make grunt-cli aware of the --gruntfile flag, but that will complicate the cli tool.

[tkellen]

https://github.com/substack/node-resolve supports using a basedir.

[cowboy]

Right. So the solution is to check and see if --gruntfile is specified, and if so, extract the path part and resolve from there. Can you see a more elegant way?

[tkellen]

Nope, you're totally on point. We should probably spend some time figuring out what the best separation of concerns is for the cli/grunt split, though.

[tkellen]

Merged and published as 0.1.9, thanks!