On the commandline when running black I can set

--extend-exclude

If I run

black --extend-exclude=foo/ -v foo/

I see that all of foo is skipped.. as expected. I can't recreate this with the black config options in pants.toml

[black]
args = ["--extend-exclude=observatory_api/", "-v"]
install_from_resolve = "black"

Still runs against all of observatory_api/ Any advice on how to debug?

pants --keep-sandboxes=always ...

Is always a great debugging tool

Yeah I see the exclude in the __run.sh.. but it is still running 😕

I think you may want force exclude

YUP

Alternatively, set the

skip_black

field on the target

Unfortunately, observatory_api is a swagger generated library then we have the tooling that runs pants tailor observatory_api following generation. Is there a way to tell pants to add to a BUILD? I'm thinking like builddozer and buildifier from bazel.

90% of the time buildozer works