Regarding https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/15069 and related issues, is there a way to have a sandbox that contains a view of the repository that contains exactly what would be present in a fresh checkout? These formatting and linting tools are designed to execute in the "workspace environment", right?

The integration with linting/formatting tools is designed to work with the execution sandbox. (Also, the workspace environment is a more recent feature and was primarily added as an "escape hatch" for integrating with external build tools not as the normal mode of operation.)

Thanks, makes sense. Is it true that tools like ruff are designed to have the complete view of the code in the repository?