Encountered exception while trying to run gradlew.bat

[svaradar12]

I am interested in the Netflix/staash REST API for Cassandra. I downloaded the code and ran gradlew.bat on windows and encountered the following exception:

19:19:50.921 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
19:19:50.976 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
19:19:51.036 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * Where:
19:19:51.070 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Script 'D:\staash-master\staash-master\grad
le\release.gradle' line: 1
19:19:51.100 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
19:19:51.128 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * What went wrong:
19:19:51.151 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] A problem occurred evaluating script.
19:19:51.172 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] > Unsupported SCM system, no .svn, .bzr, .g
it, or .hg found in [D:\staash-master\staash-master] or its parent directories.
19:19:51.211 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
19:19:51.229 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * Exception is:
19:19:51.310 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A pro
blem occurred evaluating script.

Can someone please help on how can proceed.

Thanks,
Srini.