Calling a multistage capistrano task from within a capistrano task

I have a capistrano task that consolidates the deployment of multiple stages of a Rails project.

For example:

task :consolidated_task do
    build #creates a new release branch from master, 
          #sets a variable with the relese branch name

    staging
    deploy.migrations

    production
    deploy.migrations
end

Is this the proper way to call a multistage task from another cap task?

The build task creates a new git branch and published it. The name of the new branch gets saved as a capistrano variable. the staging and production stage tasks then use this variable to specify what branch to deploy from.

When this task runs, it fails with:

fatal: working tree '/Users/<my working directory>' already exists.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.5.19/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/strategy/copy.rb:99:in `initialize': No such file or directory - /var/folders/3d/3dKYNUwQGOSLZFXsMF-uv++++TM/-Tmp-/20100802182750/REVISION (Errno::ENOENT)

I'm pushing the source from my local machine as the git repository and the deployment machine cannot communicate with each other.

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