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Re: [PATCH 0/3] making test-suite tracing more useful

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 23, 2017, 11:04 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710231302480.6482@virtualbox>
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<20171019210140.64lb52cqtgdh22ew@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi Peff,
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Jeff King wrote:
> I sometimes run git's test suite as part of an automated testing
> process. I was hoping to add "-x" support to get more details when a
> test fails (since failures are sometimes hard to reproduce).
Thank you for working on this.
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> Johannes, I've seen that you do "-x" in the tests that the
> git-for-windows bot uses to comment on GitHub. You may have seen the
> bogus failure in t5615, which this series should fix (you may also have
> seen the "set +x" cruft at the end of each test, which is fixed here,
> too).

Surprisingly enough, I did not see any test failure in that test. I do re-run failed tests after the complete test run to make sure that the failure is not due to any resource scarcity, and that re-run is performed with -x (to double as documentation what really went wrong).

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 22 of 36 in “making test-suite tracing more useful”
  1. 0/3 making test-suite tracing more usefulJeff King, Oct 19, 2017
  2. 1/3 test-lib: silence "-x" cleanup under bashJeff King, Oct 19, 2017
  3. 2/3 t5615: avoid re-using descriptor 4Jeff King, Oct 19, 2017
  4. Stefan BellerOct 19, 2017
  5. Jeff KingOct 19, 2017
  6. Jeff KingOct 20, 2017
  7. Stefan BellerOct 20, 2017
  8. Jeff KingOct 20, 2017
  9. Simon RuderichOct 21, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2017
  11. Jeff KingOct 21, 2017
  12. 3/3 test-lib: make "-x" work with "--verbose-log"Jeff King, Oct 19, 2017
  13. Johannes SchindelinOct 23, 2017
  14. 4/3 t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATHJeff King, Oct 20, 2017
  15. SZEDER GáborOct 20, 2017
  16. Jeff KingOct 21, 2017
  17. Johannes SchindelinOct 23, 2017
  18. Jeff KingOct 24, 2017
  19. Johannes SchindelinOct 25, 2017
  20. Jeff KingOct 25, 2017
  21. Johannes SchindelinOct 27, 2017
  22. Johannes SchindelinOct 23, 2017
  23. Jeff KingOct 24, 2017
  24. 0/4 making test-suite tracing more usefulJeff King, Dec 8, 2017
  25. 1/4 test-lib: silence "-x" cleanup under bashJeff King, Dec 8, 2017
  26. 2/4 t5615: avoid re-using descriptor 4Jeff King, Dec 8, 2017
  27. 3/4 test-lib: make "-x" work with "--verbose-log"Jeff King, Dec 8, 2017
  28. 4/4 t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATHJeff King, Dec 8, 2017
  29. Johannes SchindelinDec 8, 2017
  30. Jeff KingDec 8, 2017
  31. Johannes SchindelinDec 9, 2017
  32. Jeff KingDec 10, 2017
  33. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2017
  34. Jeff KingDec 15, 2017
  35. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2017
  36. Jeff KingDec 21, 2017

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