Hello, I'd like to try and revive an old conversation that resulted in a feature request. @full-advantage-24495 and I would be willing to contribute but may need some guidance on a feature like this.

That’s an interesting one. What kind of guidance would be helpful?

We haven't had a whole lot of experience with the internals of Pants. I wouldn't know quite where to start and where such a tool would live. My first guess might be something like the various tools in

src/python/pants/backend/project_info

. It almost seems like it could even be an extension of

pants filedeps

except I don't think you can currently point to a service and use the

changed-since

flag together.

Hmm yeah I think the first step is a little bit of user design work - i.e., what should the CLI look like