gulp.src using sync globbing

Question

I looked at the source for gulp.src(), and apparently it's just a reference to require('vinyl-fs').src(). Looking at the documentation for vfs's src(), it says that it takes any options that it defines, along "any glob-related options are documented in glob-stream and node-glob." According to node-glob's documentation, I can pass in the options { sync: true }.

When I try to use gulp.src(..., { sync: true }), however, I get this error from gulp:

TypeError: Object #<GlobSync> has no method 'on'

Any idea how to specify sync option with gulp.src()?

Answer 1

Still ran into problems using gulp.src(filePatterns).pipe(order(filePatterns)). The concatenated output order now stays the same everytime I run gulp, but the order of concatenation isn't in the order specified by the filePatterns array literal. Maybe I'm missing something.

Whatever the case, I ended up implementing this workaround below. Instead of doing, for example, gulp.src(filePatterns), I now do gulp.src(deglob(filePatterns)) and get the same order each time, and in the order that the filePatterns array literal is defined.

function deglob() {
    var syncGlob = require('glob').sync,
        patterns = _.flatten(arguments, true);

    return _.flatten(patterns.map(function(pattern) {
        return syncGlob(pattern).map(function(file) {
            return pattern.charAt(0) === '!' ? ('!' + file) : file;
        });
    }), true);
}

I've actually stopped using gulp.src() completely and instead use this everywhere:

gulp.from = function () {
    return gulp.src(deglob(arguments));
};