add a --filter-to-files global option which python checkstyle can use to go faster in the pre-commit hook

[cosmicexplorer]

See #7069 -- we might like to speed up the pre-commit hook by making it only work on staged files, but there's not currently a way to filter down to files in between targets. Introducing a global option which tasks such as python checkstyle could use to filter the input files they pass into a subprocess could be an easy way to speed up a variety of tasks.

[illicitonion]

If this is meant to affect all tasks, doing something like:

files=($(for f in $(git diff --name-only --cached); do echo "--owners-of=${f}"; done))
./pants "${files[@]}" test

would probably work?

If this is only meant to affect one task, or one goal, I'd want to introduce a per-task or per-goal option...

[cosmicexplorer]

Thinking about your comment, I think it is probably very doable to add this in target_restriction_mixins.py alongside SkipAndTransitiveGoalOptionsMixin, for checkstyle tasks (as they wish). I agree that a global option doesn't really make sense.

[Eric-Arellano]

Closing as this plugin has been deprecated and will soon be removed.