can the `pants_version` global option be configure...
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
12/04/2019, 11:56 PMcan the
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aloof-angle-91616
12/04/2019, 11:57 PMin what sense?
aloof-angle-91616
12/04/2019, 11:57 PMit can be, but there's no magic to do that right now
aloof-angle-91616
12/04/2019, 11:57 PMpossibly related: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/8716
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
12/05/2019, 12:05 AMI'd like to be able to specify that pants should upgrade itself to the latest version of the codebase on the master git branch (or maybe some arbitrary commit or branch, but right now I care about master)
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witty-crayon-22786
12/05/2019, 12:18 AMno, it cannot. but master builds do publish wheels to s3
witty-crayon-22786
12/05/2019, 12:18 AMtwitter consumes them via
release.sh -pwitty-crayon-22786
12/05/2019, 12:19 AMand hypothetically you could consume any sha's wheels to run off of nightly.
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
12/05/2019, 12:20 AMso if I wanted to make my project's pants instance always use the master build, how would I specify it?
hundreds-breakfast-49010
12/05/2019, 12:20 AM(I don't actually want to do this in general, I just want to test against the commit I merged to master a few hours ago. but this seems like a useful thing to be able to do on occasion)
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witty-crayon-22786
12/05/2019, 12:34 AMVia custom code based on the above
witty-crayon-22786
12/05/2019, 12:34 AMMost likely modifying the venv built by the
pants