So, I was chatting with @busy-vase-39202 about incremental pants adoption in existing repos. The

skip_pylint

and

skip_*

parameters are really helpful, but I had to add them manually wherever I wanted to skip them. (PS -

skip_*

is a lifesaver. Thank you!!!) For existing projects that want to adopt pants incrementally, what if you could add a "skip by default" mode to

./pants taiilor

? Then, someone could go in and un-skip the tools in just one directory, and slowly increase the number of enabled directories until they've linted everything. Heck that would be a pretty cool way to adopt

black

and other tools more incrementally as well. That would give great flexibility for very small POC pants implementations in existing repos to show the value pants provides before adopting it in more and more of the repo until the entire repo can be covered by pants.

do you mean like a

tailor_ignore

config section, that could express a list of globs for

./pants tailor

to skip BUILD file generation on?

I'm thinking

tailor

can create the BUILD files, but it should add

skip_pylint

skip_black

skip_pytest

etc to all the targets it creates depending on which backend are enabled.

That sounds like an excellent idea!

Yes. Exactly!