ignore-adding-targets doesn’t seem to work for

requirements.txt

. For example, in an extremely minimal repo:

# pants.toml
[GLOBAL]
pants_version = "2.8.0rc4"
backend_packages = [
  "pants.backend.python",
]

[tailor]
ignore_adding_targets = ["//:requirements.txt"]

reports

./pants tailor --check
Would update BUILD:
  - Add python_requirements target requirements.txt

if there is a

requirements.txt

in the same directory. (In the middle of incremental adoption of pants and we’ve got a bunch of

requirements.txt

spread around that I need to ignore because they have duplicated targets). Am I doing something silly wrong, or is there a bug here?

Ah definitely a bug.

python_requirements

is weird, it's not actually a target. It's using this old macro system we're very soon deprecating in favor of a better implementation You can set this instead:

[python]
tailor_requirements_targets = false

(Bug report also very much appreciated if you have a moment!)