From 9c475c36e7f39bca76414c46f783fcb427f905d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Molteni <marco.molteni@mailbox.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 18:16:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Handle the common case when the task directory is not
 specified

Closes #209
---
 task.go | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/task.go b/task.go
index 1e5f430e..9789cf35 100644
--- a/task.go
+++ b/task.go
@@ -200,12 +200,14 @@ func (e *Executor) RunTask(ctx context.Context, call taskfile.Call) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// When using the dir: attribute it can happen that the directory doesn't exist.
+	// When using the "dir:" attribute it can happen that the directory doesn't exist.
 	// If so, we create it.
-	if _, err := os.Stat(t.Dir); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		if err := os.MkdirAll(t.Dir, 0755); err != nil {
-			e.Logger.Errf("cannot make directory %v: %v", t.Dir, err)
-			return err
+	if t.Dir != "" {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(t.Dir); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			if err := os.MkdirAll(t.Dir, 0755); err != nil {
+				e.Logger.Errf("task: cannot make directory %q: %v", t.Dir, err)
+				return err
+			}
 		}
 	}