With bazel I have the ability to set the .bazelrc in various locations.. is there a way to do something similar with pants? For instance, if I want to set a global option just for my computer.

you can have a

~/.pantsrc

and then in the project root to override with per project settings

https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/options#environment-variables So

export PANTS_LOCAL_STORE_FILES_MAX_SIZE_BYTES=xxx

and

/etc/pantsrc

as it turns out https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/options#pantsrc-file

Sweet. thanks!