#18624 `pants generate-lockfiles --resolve=foo` w/o a `python_requirements` targets does the wrong thing Issue created by kaos Describe the bug I was surprised to learn that I could run

pants generate-lockfiles --resolve=pytest

after setting up the requirements file and configured the resolve in

pants.toml

but not having any

python_requirements

targets yet. Pants version 2.16.0a1 OS Mac Additional info The result is an empty lockfile, completely disregarding the contents of my

pytest.txt

requirements file. For tools, it feels kind of weird that it is required to have a

python_requirements

target in order for it to work. Regardless, I think it should fail rather than happily produce an empty lockfile in this case. pantsbuild/pants