How can I tell pants to ignore directories when doing

fmt

?

I think I asked about this earlier. AFAIK there's not top-level

fmt

"skip these". You'll have to/want to use the

skip_XYZ

options to

python_sources

and friends. Core devs can correct me if I'm wrong 🙂

@melodic-thailand-99227 some useful reading I’ve discovered myself recently 🙂 https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1636564914098300

Hmm, Pants does support exclusion globs (prefixed by a

!

) but it looks like we only support those in BUILD files, not on the cmd line. I wonder if we could add that support easily. @hundreds-father-404 thoughts? It would have to be used in a single-quoted string so the shell didn't attempt to interpret the

!

@happy-kitchen-89482 for command line specs? Yep, I want to add these very badly. Part of the CLI redesign I proposed last month but we de-prioritized

@melodic-thailand-99227 is the purpose here to temporarily ignore some directories in a single run, say to save time, or is it that some directories do not (yet) pass lint and you don't want to fail on them? The

skip_lintername

target fields are for that latter case.