@wide-energy-11069:

transitive = false

means that you shouldn't include the dependencies of this target.

./pants export testprojects/src/java:: >/tmp/export.json

and you will find some targets with that setting. See

testprojects/src/java/org/pantsbuild/testproject/intransitive/BUILD

testprojects/src/java/org/pantsbuild/testproject/provided/BUILD

They are created when you use the

provided()

and

intransitive()

wrappers around a dependency