Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters
On 15/10/2020 12:48, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Phillip Wood wrote:
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>> I'm worryingly excited by this series
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> FWIW I am in the same boat.
I'm glad it's not just me!
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>> 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
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
That's a handy tip, thanks (though hopefully I soon wont need to use it)
Phillip
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> 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.
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> Giddy,
> Dscho
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