Hi folks, I am trying to exclude certain paths from linting protobuf. I added the following configuration but it throws errors like "Failure: path "something" has no matching file in the image". however if i use

buf

directly with the command line argument, it works. so how to correctly exclude paths in pants?

[buf]
lint_args = [
    "--exclude-path=something",
]

Hi there, the intended way to exclude things is the

skip_buf_format

and

skip_buf_lint

fields. For example, this is how you do it with Python tools https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-linters-and-formatters#running-only-certain-formatters-or-linters

sure created a ticket

Thank you for opening https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/16664! Would you have any interest in submitting a PR? I added some notes on how to do it, it's a smaller ticket https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/contributor-overview for our contributor guide