I am doing some improvements on our pipelines in gitlab and am using "package" goal for the first time. (I have a python library, a rust binary, and a few docker images to produce) When I ran this

- 'pants package --changed-since=${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME} --changed-dependents=transitive ::'

It errors with

Exception message: You used `--changed-since` at the same time as using glob arguments. You can only use `--changed-since` or use normal arguments.
NoneType: None

Context - I found this at the following reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/153oomg/monorepo_microservices_dependency_managment_build/ The user

frisouille

does not state what Pants version they are using. (the version is 2.16.0rc3 - I will update to 2.17 tomorrow. Related Question(s) • what is the best command to run, to have pants tell me what packages are "package-able". ◦ Is there a smaller command than,

pants --filter-target-type=archive,docker_image,pex_binary,python_distribution list ::

I don't quite understand the question maybe.

package

only acts on things it can act on. E.g., if you do

pants package ::

it'll ignore everything that can't be packaged. When you using a filter such as

--changed-since

, you can simply drop the

::

since

--changed-since

will give you all targets in the provided time-range.

that's the answer 😄 The error was slightly misleading me

Exception message: You used `--changed-since` at the same time as using glob arguments. You can only use `--changed-since` or use normal arguments.

what are "normal arguments" 😄

I'm going to guess it means "regular target selection syntax", but don't quote me on that.

Yeah that seems poorly worded. Feel free to grep the codebase for the message and submit a PR!

These are “normal arguments”: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.18/docs/goals#goal-arguments

And yes, an update PR to clarify that would be great!