Re: [PATCH 5/6] test-lib: allow prefixing a custom string before "ok N" etc.

> Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>> This is not really meant for external use, but allows the next commit
>>> to neatly distinguish between sub-tests and the main run.
>>
>> Maybe we do not care about standards for this library or for your
>> use-case, but placing this prefix before the "{ok,not ok}" breaks the
>> TAProtocol.
>> http://podwiki.hexten.net/TAP/TAP.html?page=TAP
>>
>> Maybe you can put the prefix _after_ the "{ok, not ok}" and test number.
>
> Actually that was half on purpose.  You will notice I did not document
> that option, as it is intended only to be used to distinguish between
> the parallel runs implemented in [6/6].
>
> Those parallel runs look something like
>
> [4] ok 1 - plain
> [4] ok 2 - plain nested in bare
> [...snip until othes catch up...]
> [4] ok 33 - re-init to update git link
> [4] ok 34 - re-init to move gitdir
> [3] ok 1 - plain
> [2] ok 1 - plain
> [4] ok 35 - re-init to move gitdir symlink
> [4] # still have 2 known breakage(s)
> [4] # passed all remaining 33 test(s)
> [4] 1..35
> [3] ok 2 - plain nested in bare
>
> It's invalid TAP no matter what: there are N plans and the ok/not ok
> lines from N runs all intermingled.  So I'd rather not even pretend that
> it is valid in any way.