Can I tell pants to only run pylint on a subset of targets? (eg ignore all

:tests

target files?)

In a pipeline you can feed pants with

./pants filter ... | xargs ./pants lint

; otherwise you'd need to use

./pants --tag=+foo lint

and setup a bunch of

foo

target tags (or the inverse).

Hmm. K. I’m comparing the current Makefile for StackStorm. They ran pylint on only a selection of files, so I was looking for a way to do the same by default. I want to completely eliminate the Makefile to simplify development and simplify CI, but I guess I can’t simplify it as far as I thought. To use the filter option, I would need some kind of wrapper to run

./pants lint --skip-pylint

and then skip everything else and just run pylint.