So, I often have pants running in one terminal, and then I open a file in vim in another terminal. vim creates its temporary file which triggers pants file change detection and then it restarts whatever pants goal I had running in the other terminal. Is there a way to get pants to ignore vim's swap files? I tried adding

*.swp

to

[GLOBAL].pants_ignore

but that didn't seem to do anything. If I don't want to interrupt pants' process, then I make sure not to save until it's done. But, I can only do that if I opened the file before pants started.

it also creates

~

files… take a look at the

.pants.d/pants.log

during one of those edits, and you can see which files are being created

Oh that's helpful. I didn't think of checking the log. Apparently, vim was creating

*.swpx

and

*.swx

files. I've never seen that

x

at the end before... weird. Thanks! Now it's working better.