diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 93971be38..a12d6aa7d 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ var COMMON_WEB_FILES = [
   'web/images/*.{png,svg,gif,cur}',
   'web/debugger.js'
 ];
+var MOZCENTRAL_DIFF_FILE = 'mozcentral.diff';
 
 var REPO = 'git@github.com:mozilla/pdf.js.git';
 var DIST_REPO_URL = 'https://github.com/mozilla/pdfjs-dist';
@@ -1372,6 +1373,36 @@ gulp.task('mozcentralbaseline', ['baseline'], function (done) {
       });
 });
 
+gulp.task('mozcentraldiff', ['mozcentral', 'mozcentralbaseline'],
+    function (done) {
+  console.log();
+  console.log('### Creating mozcentral diff');
+
+  // Create the diff between the current mozcentral build and the
+  // baseline mozcentral build, which both exist at this point.
+  // The mozcentral baseline directory is a Git repository, so we
+  // remove all files and copy the current mozcentral build files
+  // into it to create the diff.
+  rimraf.sync(MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR + '*');
+
+  gulp.src([BUILD_DIR + 'mozcentral/**/*'])
+      .pipe(gulp.dest(MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR))
+      .on('end', function () {
+        spawnSync('git', ['add', '-A'], {cwd: MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR});
+        var diff = spawnSync('git',
+          ['diff', '--binary', '--cached', '--unified=8'],
+          {cwd: MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR}).stdout;
+
+        createStringSource(MOZCENTRAL_DIFF_FILE, diff)
+          .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR))
+          .on('end', function () {
+            console.log('Result diff can be found at ' + BUILD_DIR +
+                        MOZCENTRAL_DIFF_FILE);
+            done();
+          });
+      });
+});
+
 // Getting all shelljs registered tasks and register them with gulp
 require('./make.js');
 
diff --git a/make.js b/make.js
index 7030aa8fc..1263476d2 100644
--- a/make.js
+++ b/make.js
@@ -227,34 +227,7 @@ target.mozcentralbaseline = function() {
 };
 
 target.mozcentraldiff = function() {
-  target.mozcentral();
-
-  cd(ROOT_DIR);
-
-  echo();
-  echo('### Creating mozcentral diff');
-
-  var MOZCENTRAL_DIFF = BUILD_DIR + 'mozcentral.diff';
-  if (test('-f', MOZCENTRAL_DIFF)) {
-    rm(MOZCENTRAL_DIFF);
-  }
-
-  var MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR = BUILD_DIR + 'mozcentral.baseline';
-  if (!test('-d', MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR)) {
-    echo('mozcentral baseline was not found');
-    echo('Please build one using "gulp mozcentralbaseline"');
-    exit(1);
-  }
-  cd(MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR);
-  exec('git reset --hard');
-  cd(ROOT_DIR); rm('-rf', MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR + '/*'); // trying to be safe
-  cd(MOZCENTRAL_BASELINE_DIR);
-  cp('-Rf', '../mozcentral/*', '.');
-  exec('git add -A');
-  exec('git diff --binary --cached --unified=8', {silent: true}).output.
-    to('../mozcentral.diff');
-
-  echo('Result diff can be found at ' + MOZCENTRAL_DIFF);
+  execGulp('mozcentraldiff');
 };
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////