Has anyone considered adding

./pants tailor

as a pre-commit hook? We're looking into ways to reduce the number of moving parts for data scientists to work in our monorepo, and are thinking about the tradeoffs of automating different steps

The output of tailor might need manual tweaking or at least verifying, but you could run tailor in

--check

mode as a pre-commit hook. That won't modify BUILD files but will tell you about any modifications it would have made, and sets a non-zero return code if there were any.

Yeah I think it's a good idea to automate, e.g. via CI https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/using-pants-in-ci#approach-1-only-run-over-changed-files