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Is it possible to configure `./pants tailor`, `./pants test ::`, etc to only operate on files tracked in Git?

Hmm, they should already ignore everything configured by (`pants_ignore`)[<https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#section-pants-ignore>] which includes everything covered by gitignore by default (see <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#section-pants-ignore-use-gitignore>)

Oh, and is this due to nested .gitignore files? IIRC we don't handle those at the moment

I mean files outside .gitignore that haven’t been staged or committed. If you run `git status`, they show up under `Untracked files:`

there's no way to do this atm. It would require a specific `--no-changed-untracked` option. Would you be interested in adding that?

Hmm, I think running `git stash --include-untracked` first would be a good way to do it without specific support in Pants

If that's acceptable for your workflow then yep!