Noticed that if

pants

is a symlink (to

scie-pants

), https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18202 this issue occured (it printed the linked to binary,

~/bin/pants

in my case, to the lockfile header). I detected this because my pyenv shims contained an entry for

pants

. I did not intend for that to happen, and dont really know how it did. I resolved this issue by simply removing the shim, since that is obviously incorrect.

It's a long thread there @worried-painter-31382 but things are working as intended from the scie-pants side. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18202#issuecomment-1424300451 still applies. So you have a workaround with the custom command option or else you need to fix Pants itself here to just stop doing this.