How can a gulp task know if a gulp.watch task is running?

Question

I have a gulp git task that does a checkout, thus changes the current working dir.

I also have gulp watch tasks that recompile changed files.

I do NOT want to run the git task if any watch task is running .. it would recompile the files in the new branch.

Is there a way to detect if a gulp watch task is running? If so I can simply exit the git task with a warning message.

Answer 1

You could use the gulp-if plugin for this

Create a variable isWatching for instance, and when running your watch task, set it to true Then, in your task that runs git you can do: if(!isWatching, runGit), where runGit would be a function that executes your git task or whatever

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