I just ran command

./pants tailor ::

on a new repository and got:

13:56:24.86 [ERROR] 1 Exception encountered:

  ValueError: The tailor goal only accepts literal directories as arguments, but you specified: ::.  You can also specify no arguments to run against the entire repository.

Running

./pants tailor

works fine. The command with the

::

target is provided in the docs: Generate BUILD files. Is this expected or is it an issue? Perhaps the semantics of the command has changed in a recent version and docs need to be updated?

What version of Pants? Also CC @hundreds-father-404

sorry! it's

2.12.0

This might be pre-Eric's changes perhaps? I think the error message is valid (until 2.13 where the specs semantics changed)

ah of course, thanks @bitter-ability-32190!

Yeah, 2.13 is where things become consistent. Thanks Josh