On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:39:01AM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:53 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > > > From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > When using the --run flag to run just two or three tests from a test > > > file which contains several dozen tests, having every skipped test print > > > out dozens of lines of output for the test code for that skipped test > > > adds up to hundreds or thousands of lines of irrelevant output that make > > > it very hard to fish out the relevant results you were looking for. > > > Simplify the output for skipped tests down to just showing the one-line > > > descriptions. > > > > This last sentence is inaccurate in this version, isn't it? > > Maybe I could make it clearer, but I think that it is accurate[1]. If > this wording seems confusing, though, I could simplify the commit > message by reducing the sentence to "Simplify the output for skipped > tests." Yeah, I wondered if you might have been thinking that. It makes sense in the context of the other discussion, but the single-line TAP output is not even mentioned here. And it might be worth doing so, because the real reason it is OK to delete this line entirely is that it is redundant with that line. -Peff
