It would be nice and really easy I suspect, to send the gradle version to the logs on startup.
Instead of logging this (as is currently in 1.0rc3) 09:14:33.965 [INFO] [org.gradle.BuildLogger] Starting Build
why not say 09:14:33.965 [INFO] [org.gradle.BuildLogger] Starting Build with Gradle 1.0-rc-3
It also might not be a bad idea to log all of the information that comes out of ‘gradle --version’
thanks, Philip