Hi, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Phillip Wood wrote: > I'm worryingly excited by this series FWIW I am in the same boat. > On 13/10/2020 00:26, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote: > > This patch series enables me to change > > > > ./t9999-my-test.sh --run=1-3,5,17,19 > > > > into > > > > ./t9999-my-test.sh --run=setup,rename,symlink > > > > and have it pick out tests with "setup", "rename", or "symlink" in their > > description and run those. Saves me a lot of time, especially since numbers > > for tests aren't readily accessible. The easiest way for me to get the > > numbers corresponding to the tests I want to run, is to run all the tests > > and look at the output to match up the descriptions with their numbers -- > > thus defeating the point of selecting just a subset of the tests to run in > > the first place. > > Yes it's a real pain to have to run all the tests to find the numbers of the > ones you actually wanted to run. I like patch 3 as well, without it if you're > only running a couple of tests it can be hard to find then amongst all the > skipped tests. I had a quick read of the patches and they looked fine to me. I learned the trick to run with `--run=0` just to figure out the numbers in a recent Outreachy project, I think it was Slavica who taught me. But yes, without patch 3, the output looks awfully verbose and you have to scroll back an insane amount of lines for long test scripts. Giddy, Dscho
