Now that we have the goal

update-build-files

, would you find it helpful to have automated support for renaming targets and updating all their references? Something like this maybe:

[update-build-files]
rename_targets = { path/to:original_name = path/to:new_name }

Pants will update all references to the target, e.g. in the

dependencies

field. How often do you find yourself renaming targets? (Utility probably depends on how much you use dependency inference)

Its for Bazel constructs and not ours, but in case this prior art was not known: https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/tree/master/buildozer

This doesn't come up much for us. We are going to work on moving to dep inference in any event.

I could have used this quite a bit while developing some of my plugins. I changed the target name several times before I was satisfied.