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Can anyone point me at how the `--pants-config-files` option is handled? My normal strategy of grepping for the `_`-version of the `-` flag name (`rg pants_config_files`) shows it’s only used for invalidation globs and in a test, which doesn’t sound right…

I would take a look at `OptionsBootstrapper.get_config_file_paths()` in `src/python/pants/option/options_bootstrapper.py`! we manually parse args for it as seen in that method, hence the indirection

also, i generally use `rg pants.config.files` as it requires no shift key and matches things like hyphens or underscores

sometimes i use `rg -i pants.?config.?files` if i'm looking for class names or something

Oh wow, those are some interesting semantics!

If pants.ini happens to exist, always use it, regardless of whether the flag was specified as replacing or additive

yes, so maybe this comment is wrong:
&gt; `# This exactly mirrors the logic applied in Option to all regular options.`