You could specify an alias for your tasks with the task metadata.

displayName - When attached to a taskFunction creates an alias for the task. If using characters that aren't allowed in function names, use this property.

So you could use the following:

const testLocal = () => Promise.resolve();
testLocal.displayName = 'test-local';
export testLocal;

I just tried this, it seems that displayName is not honored for tasks declared by ESM export. I tried the following:

const testLocal = () => Promise.resolve();
testLocal.displayName = 'test-local';
export {testLocal};

With this gulp testLocal works but gulp test-local does not.

The following does work (declares gulp test-local):

const testLocal = () => Promise.resolve();
testLocal.displayName = 'test-local';
gulp.task(testLocal);

We tried to support displayName with exported tasks but ran into the issue. See our revert and regression test at gulpjs/gulp-cli@672b8a8

If you could get it working correctly, it'd be an awesome addition to the CLI.

@coreyfarrell any interest in trying to make displayName work in the CLI?

@phated I just did some troubleshooting, determined that undertaker is the source of the regression. gulpjs/undertaker#91 fixes the issue from that module. I'm not sure if this is considered breaking for undertaker, the docs do not really specify that displayName will be set by undertaker? That fix will allow lib/shared/register-exports.js to use gulpInst.task(task.displayName || taskName, task); without breaking the regression test. I tested by copying my undertaker changes to a clone of gulp-cli.

If/when the undertaker patch is accepted and released I can submit the fix for gulp-cli with an addition to the regression test for gulp.parallel.

export const something1 = gulp.series(a, b);
export const something2 = gulp.series(a, b);
something2.displayName = 'something-2';

With the current undertaker both exports have a displayName property, it's impossible for gulp-cli to tell that something2.displayName was overridden and that something1.displayName was not.

@coreyfarrell thanks for all the work here! I'm planning to release 2.2.0 of gulp-cli once travis/appveyor finish 😄

Published!

That's great, thanks!