What's the simplest way with pants to answer "have any dependencies of this target changed?"? Context: In some of our CI jobs want to run goals based on all depenencies that have changed, but there are a few special cases where we want to invert the logic and say "for this given target, have any of its dependencies changed?".

One way to do this is: •

./pants --changed-since={ref} list

to get all changed targets •

./pants dependencies --transitive path/to:tgt

• compare those two Another way to do this is

./pants --changed-since={ref} --changed-dependees=transitive list

and see if the requested target is in the list.

yeah I guess I could do this with one of those + grep

this issue keeps coming back, I have seen it with other pants users. so I created a ticket: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14243