Intermittent failure to find taskfile in subdirectory

[omusavi]

Description

Hi all,
Seeing some strange behavior with my taskfiles intermittently not being discovered. I am not sure if this is an environment issue or something related to the way I have configured by directories, and -v does not give any useful debugging information.

Occasionally, I will get stuck in a state where any task run in a directory that previously ran tasks fine just stops working. I have noticed this happening in times where there is no taskfile in the directory, but there is one in a root directory that is not being found. Here is some terminal output showing that:

vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task up
task: [up] nomad job run -detach -address=http://127.0.0.1:4646  *.nomad.hcl
Job registration successful
Evaluation ID: 65dfbe65-6d95-acc2-7327-234e475dee92
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task up
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task up
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task up
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task up
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task -v
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx"
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task --version
Task version: v3.40.1 (h1:Q/TjPh5SAI+XK2fBravDPZXNGm6mvnwrLJqCXfhZ3Wc=)
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps/paperless-ngx (apps-devexp) $ task --list-all
task: Available tasks for this project:
# goes on to list all the tasks just fine

The first line everything works fine, I made no changes to the task files and when rerunning the same command, taskfiles are not found. After a while though, it will work again.

This is running in an Ubuntu 24.04 based VS Code devcontainer on a Mac OS device, I am not sure if that is related.

The structure of my taskfiles is the following, also not sure if its related:

apps/
├── paperless-ngx/
Taskfile.yml
tasks/
├── nomad.yml

The file nomad.yml contains the up task I am calling in the example above. It is included in the root Taskfile.yml as such:

includes:
  nomad:
    taskfile: tasks/nomad.yml
    flatten: true

And just in case it matters (I don't think it does because I have seen other similar subdirectory issues outside of this example):

  up:
    desc: Run the nomad job defined in the current directory
    dir: "{{.NOMAD_DIR | default .USER_WORKING_DIR}}"
    cmds:
      - nomad job run -detach -address={{.NOMAD_ADDR}} {{.NOMAD_FLAGS}} *.nomad.hcl

Looking at where this error is thrown I am not seeing where there might be an intermittent issue, but I am hoping you all can help me debug this!

Maybe simpler repro

Simple example of how a parent directory task is not being called read when in this state:

vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab (apps-devexp) $ task --list-all
task: Available tasks for this project:
[REDACTED]
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab (apps-devexp) $ cd apps
vscode ➜ /workspaces/homelab/apps (apps-devexp) $ task --list-all
task: No Taskfile found at "/workspaces/homelab/apps"

Thanks!

Version

3.40.1

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04

Experiments Enabled

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