Fixing rake git:something

Turns out their was a ENV key being set by jeweler that was causing
  the issue.  All fixed now

Rakefile

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
+require 'fileutils'
+require 'pathname'
 
 begin
   require 'jeweler'
@@ -14,33 +16,34 @@ begin
     gem.add_dependency "rspec-mocks", ">= 2.0.0.a1"
     # gem is a Gem::Specification... see http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20 for additional settings
   end
-
 rescue LoadError
   puts "Jeweler (or a dependency) not available. Install it with: sudo gem install jeweler"
 end
 
+def arbitrary_command(command)
+  # Jeweler sets some ENV keys for GIT that cause our normal flow to explode
+  ENV.keys.grep(/GIT/).each { |k| ENV.delete(k) }
+  base_rspec2_path = Pathname.new(Dir.pwd.split('meta').first)
+  ['meta', 'core', 'expectations', 'mocks'].each do |dir|
+    path = base_rspec2_path.join(dir)
+    puts "====================================="
+    puts "Running [#{command}] in #{path}"
+    puts "====================================="
+    if command.include?('git')
+      system command.sub(/^git/, "git --git-dir=#{path}/.git --work-tree=#{path}")
+    else
+      system command
+    end
+    puts 
+  end
+end
+
 task :clobber do
   rm_rf 'pkg'
 end
 
 task :spec do
-  system <<-COMMANDS
-    cd ../core &&
-    echo '================================'
-    echo 'Running spec/core suite . . .'
-    echo '================================'
-    rake &&
-    cd ../mocks &&
-    echo '================================'
-    echo 'Running spec/mocks suite . . .'
-    echo '================================'
-    rake &&
-    cd ../expectations &&
-    echo '================================'
-    echo 'Running spec/expectations suite . . .'
-    echo '================================'
-    rake
-  COMMANDS
+  arbitrary_command('rake')
 end
 
 task :default => :spec
@@ -50,13 +53,7 @@ namespace :git do
     command = key == :reset ? "reset --hard" : key.to_s
     desc "git #{command} on all the repos"
     task key do
-      ["../meta","../core","../expectations", "../mocks"].each do |repo|
-        puts
-        puts "=" * 50
-        puts "running git #{command} on #{repo}:"
-        puts "=" * 50
-        puts `cd #{repo} && git #{command}`
-      end
+      arbitrary_command("git #{command}")
     end
   end