Hey all, I was messing with

[cli.alias]

(https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.18/reference/subsystems/cli#alias) and noticed that when we have aliases set on both

~/.pants.rc

and

pants.toml

files, the aliases defined on

pants.toml

file are not available. Is that the expected behavior? I was expecting they would somehow get merged.

See this section in the documentation how to work with dict options. Basically,

cli.alias

is a dict, so in the .rc you’ll want to append to it instead of overwriting it:

[cli]
alias = "+{'my_alias':'something}"

oh, got it. thanks!