Ergonomic, hermetic, user-friendly software build system for Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Protobuf, Scala, Shell. Pants lets you fearlessly scale up your codebase!

Pants

Could we drop `pytest-icdiff`?
Some diffs are pretty, sure… but colors alone aren’t great for large diffs…

image.png

Now imagine this being in a haystack of 200 lines of diff… took me well over 30 minutes to find it..

I’m sure I temp commented it out of the `pants.toml` file and regenerated the pytest lock file in the past, but it wouldn’t work this time(?!)

What does the diff look like without colors?

I think I didn't even realize that color diff output was from a pytest plugin...

It doesn’t just color it, it formats it differently.

I’ll see if I can produce a snippet without the icdiff plugin durign the weekend

Related is that we recommend users use both too: <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-test-goal#pytest-version-and-plugins>