From: Phillip Wood Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:42:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Message-ID: <4890563a-4860-5958-8984-2d784b2a481a@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 15/10/2020 12:48, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Phillip Wood wrote: > >> I'm worryingly excited by this series > > FWIW I am in the same boat. I'm glad it's not just me! >> 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. That's a handy tip, thanks (though hopefully I soon wont need to use it) Phillip > 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 >