Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] cmake: use test names instead of full paths

> On 18/09/2023 21:54, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >
> > The primary purpose of Git's CMake definition is to allow developing Git
> > in Visual Studio. As part of that, the CTest feature allows running
> > individual test scripts conveniently in Visual Studio's Test Explorer.
> >
> > However, this Test Explorer's design targets object-oriented languages
> > and therefore expects the test names in the form
> > `<namespace>.<class>.<testname>`. And since we specify the full path
> > of the test scripts instead, including the ugly `/.././t/` part, these
> > dots confuse the Test Explorer and it uses a large part of the path as
> > "namespace".
> >
> > Let's just use `t.<name>` instead. This still adds an ugly "Empty
> > Namespace" layer by default, but at least the ugly absolute path is now
> > gone.
>
> That does sound like a worthwhile improvement. If we used `git.t.<name>` would
> that fix the "Empty Namespace" problem? (probably not worth a re-roll on its
> own)