Some improvements coming to command-line arguments in Pants 2.13 🥳 1. "target-less" goals like

update-build-files

,

tailor

, and

count-loc

now behave the same as "target-aware" goals like

list

.

./pants count-loc ::

runs on all files, and

./pants --changed-since=HEAD update-build-files

only will run on changed BUILD files 2.

./pants test dir

now does what you'd intuitively expect. Before, it would run on the target that left off the

name=

field 🤦 now, you can set an option so that directories == all targets & files in the directory 3.

filter

options work from anywhere. Before:

./pants filter --target-type=python_test :: | xargs ./pants test

. After:

./pants --filter-target-type=python_test test ::