Re: [PATCH 2/2] test-lib: GIT_TEST_ONLY to run only specific tests

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On 3/3/2014 3:03 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a counterpart to GIT_SKIP_TESTS.  Mostly useful when debugging.
To be grammatically similar to GIT_SKIP_TESTS, perhaps name it GIT_RUN_TESTS?

There is actually an upside in the fact that the name is "different enough". When you pull a command from a history it is easier to see if it is the excluding or the including one.
Maybe we can have a third opinion here?

---
  t/README      |   15 +++++++++++++++
  t/test-lib.sh |    8 ++++++++
  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index caeeb9d..f939987 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -187,6 +187,21 @@ and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole
  test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which
  particular test to skip.

+Sometimes the opposite is desired - ability to execute only one or
+several tests.  Mostly while debugging tests.  For that you can say
+
+    $ GIT_TEST_ONLY=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh
+
+or, similrary to GIT_SKIP_TESTS
+
+    $ GIT_TEST_ONLY='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make
+
+In additiona to matching against "<test suite number>.<test number>"
s/additiona/addition/

Plus the other typos already mentioned by Philip...

Thank you.  I will include all of those in the next version of the patch.

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