[Feature Request] Private tasks

[JulienBreux]

It's possible to have private task ?

Definition of private task:

• Only callable inside a Taskfile
• Never listed outside with task -l

Thanks 🙏

[andreynering]

Hi @JulienBreux,

Tasks without a desc: are kinda private, since they won't be listed on task -l.

It'd be trivial to allow private: true in a task, but the benefit is relatively small. I'm open for opinions.

[BnGx]

The idea of ​​a private task seems interesting to me because it could be reserved for advanced users or automatic actions like Git hooks or CI/CD environment.

For example, if there are a series of tasks such as formatting or linting of the code or integration test and deploy, it would be appropriate to hide them from the task list but still recall them from the CLI.

The list of tasks could become very long for complex projects, confusing the developer who normally focuses on productivity during the development phase using canonical tasks such as test, run, docs.

Although currently the workaround can be implemented by omitting the desc option, in my opinion it would be more appropriate to use a private or hidden option.

For the call from the CLI it might be appropriate to include a flag like --include-private, -p to allow its execution although I don't think this is essential as it would complicate the call syntax a bit.

[pd93]

@BnGx See internal tasks.

[BnGx]

I know the internal tasks, however these are not callable from the CLI and have a different purpose than what I described.