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

Thanks!

sometimes i use

rg -i pants.?config.?files

if i'm looking for class names or something

Oh wow, those are some interesting semantics!

yes, so maybe this comment is wrong:

# This exactly mirrors the logic applied in Option to all regular options.

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