Hi, I have a project structure as below:

Tree of: /root/project

.

|__apps

| |__app1

| |__app2

| |__app3

And I have the

root_patterns

declared as:

[source]

root_patterns = [

"/apps/app2",

"/apps/app3",

]

But the command

./pants tailor ::

is generating

BUILD

files in

apps/app1

too. I don’t want that to happen. Could anyone please help?

See the various ignore options here: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-tailor

Ok, I added the subsystem tailor in my

pants.toml

file:

[tailor]

ignore_paths = [

"/apps/app1",

]

But it threw an error that said:

ValueError: Absolute paths not supported: "/apps/app1"

Those paths should be relative to the repo root. An absolute path would make no sense in a checked in file that is intended to be portable across clones of the repo.

Ok, I just tried

apps/app1/**

and the

tailor

goal worked as intended.

Hi had a similar issue recently. and started with the tailor one but thanks to some help from the community changed mine to be

[GLOBAL]
pants_ignore.add = [
 "/folder-to-ignore",
 "/file_to_ignore.txt",
"/another_file_to_ignore.py",
]

with this I was able to remove the

[tailo[

block