gulpfile.babel.js not used if parent directory has a gulpfile.js

What were you expecting to happen?

for directory structure like

project-dir/
    submodules/
       my-module/
           gulpfile.babel.js
    gulpfile.js

when i run gulp in the project-dir/submodules/my-module directory i expected it to use project-dir/submodules/my-module/gulpfile.babel.js.

What actually happened?

it uses project_dir/gulpfile.js.

if i change the name of project-dir/gulpfile.js to project-dir/gulpfile.babel.js it works as expected.

(as the example directory structure suggests, this problem cropped up when changing a submodule in a project to use gulpfile.babel.js while the main repo was still using gulpfile.js)

Please post a sample of your gulpfile (preferably reduced to just the bit that’s not working)

it doesn’t matter what’s in the gulpfile. you can reproduce via:

mkdir project-dir
cd project-dir
npm init -y
npm install --save-dev gulp
touch gulpfile.js
mkdir -p submodules/my-module
cd submodules/my-module
npm init -y
npm install --save-dev gulp babel-register
touch gulpfile.babel.js
gulp -T

output shows gulp walking up the directory tree to gulpfile.js:

[21:49:03] Working directory changed to /private/tmp/project-dir
[21:49:03] Using gulpfile /private/tmp/project-dir/gulpfile.js
[21:49:04] Tasks for /private/tmp/project-dir/gulpfile.js

then if you

mv ../../gulpfile.js ../../gulpfile.babel.js
gulp -T

you’ll see it use the correct file:

[21:50:08] Requiring external module babel-register
[21:50:08] Using gulpfile /private/tmp/project-dir/submodules/my-module/gulpfile.babel.js
[21:50:08] Tasks for /private/tmp/project-dir/submodules/my-module/gulpfile.babel.js

What version of gulp are you using?

$ gulp --version
[21:36:13] Requiring external module babel-register
[21:36:13] CLI version 3.9.1
[21:36:13] Local version 3.9.1

What versions of npm and node are you using?

$ npm --version
3.10.3

$ node --version
v6.6.0

[phated]

This was just fixed in findup-sync@0.4.3 - please upgrade your dependency tree.

[MGBR]

I’m having the same issue.

Also, if the parent dir doesn’t have a gulpfile, gulp returns an error Local gulp not found in <parent-dir>. In my project, it’s looking for the gulpfile three levels up the file tree from where I’m running gulp