Is there a way to get Gulp to watch without having to re-define all of the globs?

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I have pretty complex Gulpfile in a project that has metiuculous culled its globs and whatnot as I'd like them.

Now I'd like to add gulp watch functionality of some sort, but it appears I have to... re-define them all, again, to perform a watch? This is pretty poor devex, violates DRY, and overall is a lot of work and bloat for little gain.

Am I missing something? Why can't I just tell gulp to run the tasks but instead of executing them immediately, listen for .src() calls and use those globs as inputs for watching?