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I have created a custom list view on Task. In Workbench it is displayed under Task within metadata type 'ListView'.
When I pull my metadata using API v43 I can't find the xml definition for it anywhere.
It is not listed as an Unsupported Metadata Type in the Metadata API Developer Guide for Summer '18.
How can I retrieve the metadata for it so that I can then deploy it?
They should appear in the Activity object (src/objects/Activity.object). Note that "private" list views will not appear in the Metadata API.
Example SFDX command:
sfdx force:source:retrieve -m CustomObject:Activity
List views are part of the CustomObject metadata entity. If you open up a .object file (the XML source for a custom object), you'll see top-level entries like this:
<listViews>
<fullName>All</fullName>
<filterScope>Everything</filterScope>
<label>All</label>
</listViews>
that define each of your list views.
Note that the CustomObject type in your package.xml is also used to pull customizations like list views for standard objects. If you include a standard object in your package.xml,
<types>
<members>Task</members>
<name>CustomObject</name>
</types>
You'll get back all of its non-private list views.
If you just pull down custom fields on a standard object (with the CustomField type), you won't get the list views back.
You can select list views individually with the ListView type in your package.xml:
<types>
<members>Account.My_List_View</members>
<name>ListView</name>
</types>
but they'll still be stored in your .object files.
Adding onto @sfdcfox and @DavidReed answers, you could do a direct pull of the list view with:
sfdx force:source:retrieve -m ListView:Task.My_Task_List_View -u MyConnectedOrg
