run: once does not work as expected with wildcards

[ajeetdsouza]

Description

Say I set up a task like so:

run: once
tasks:
  deploy:all:
    deps:
      - deploy:redis
      - deploy:postgres

  deploy:*:
    cmd: echo "deploying {{ index .MATCH 0 }}"

Only one service (random) ends up deployed. The reason being that deploy:* is treated as a single task, and is only called once.

Version

3.41.0

Operating system

macOS 15.5

Experiments Enabled

No response

Example Taskfile

[vmaerten]

This is tricky, and I’m not sure how run: once should behave with a wildcard. You can use run: when_changed to achieve what you want.

[ajeetdsouza]

Thanks for the reply! when_changed does solve my issue, but I think it's worth discussing what the expected behavior for once should be here - when the task name is completely different, shouldn't it be treated as a different task, and run again?