Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests

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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:39:01AM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:53 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> > > > From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
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> > > > 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."
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> 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.