On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:55 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Makes sense; I'll update it to mention that, once the discussion on how we want to handle regexes/globs/subshells for patch 1/3 is resolved.
