I am wondering how everyone is using pants tailor? do you have it run in a git hook? or some automatically some other way? or only manually?

I think there's room to improve it, like adding a

--check

option perhaps that will error if files are missing. Maybe even hook it up to

./pants lint

We would probably need a way to tell

./pants tailor

to ignore certain dirs tho, which right now you can use

pants_ignore

but there may be a better approach

On my team we have an automated script that will run tailor and ensure BUILD files are up to date. This check also runs in our CI pipelines. Like @hundreds-father-404 said you have to be sure the

pants_ignore

is up to date because it will target non-source roots (+1 for the

--check

option and

./pants lint

integration). I think the git hook is a good idea. Developers can also run this check manually, we have a PyCharm external tool to help with this too.