New: Support description task property

index.js

@@ -136,14 +136,38 @@ function handleArguments(env) {
 
 function logTasks(env, localGulp) {
   var tree = taskTree(localGulp.tasks);
+  var padding = 0;
   tree.label = 'Tasks for ' + chalk.magenta(tildify(env.configPath));
   archy(tree)
     .split('\n')
-    .forEach(function (v) {
-      if (v.trim().length === 0) {
-        return;
+    .filter(function (v, i) {
+      // log first line as is
+      if ( i === 0 ) {
+        gutil.log(v);
+          return false;
+      }
+      // search for longest line
+      if ( v.length > padding ) {
+        padding = v.length;
+      }
+      return v.trim().length !== 0;
+
+    }).forEach(function (v) {
+      var line = v.split(' ');
+      var task = line.slice(1).join(' ');
+
+      if ( /.└/.test(v) ) {
+        // log dependencies as is
+        gutil.log(v);
+      } else {
+        // pretty task with optionnal description
+        gutil.log(
+          line[0] + ' ' +
+          chalk.cyan(task) +
+          Array( padding + 3 - v.length ).join(' ') +
+          ( localGulp.tasks[task].fn.description || '' )
+        );
       }
-      gutil.log(v);
     });
 }
 

test/flags-tasks.js

@@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ lab.experiment('flag: --tasks', function () {
 
   lab.test('prints the task list', function (done) {
     child.exec('node ' + __dirname + '/../bin/gulp.js --tasks --cwd ./test', function(err, stdout) {
-      stdout = stdout.replace(/\\/g, '/');
-      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('/gulp-cli/test');
-      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('├── test1');
-      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('├── test2');
-      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('├── test3');
-      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('└── default');
+      code.expect(stdout).to.contain('Tasks for');
+      stdout = stdout.replace(/\\/g, '/').split('Tasks for')[1].split('\n');
+      code.expect(stdout[0]).to.contain('/gulp-cli/test');
+      code.expect(stdout[1]).to.contain('├── test1');
+      code.expect(stdout[2]).to.contain('├─┬ test2');
+      code.expect(stdout[3]).to.contain('│ └── test1');
+      code.expect(stdout[4]).to.contain('├── test3    description');
+      code.expect(stdout[5]).to.contain('└── default');
       done(err);
     });
   });

test/gulpfile.js

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 var gulp = require('gulp');
 
 function noop(){}
+function described(){}
+described.description = 'description';
 
 gulp.task('test1', noop);
-gulp.task('test2', noop);
-gulp.task('test3', noop);
+gulp.task('test2', ['test1'], noop);
+gulp.task('test3', described);
 
 gulp.task('default', noop);