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For ad_hoc tool outputs... is there a way to write them back to the source tree?

The main reason for this would be to support committing generated code to version control, which is desirable in many cases.

There’s some discussion, including what we do as a work around, in <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/discussions/18235|https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/discussions/18235>