From: David Tran <unsignedzero@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:35:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests
Message-ID: <loom.20140331T213335-569@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlhvq8fbw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>
> 
> I would have to say that there is already an established pattern to
> pick ranges that normal people understand well and it would be silly
> to invent another more verbose way to express the same thing.  You
> tell your Print Dialog which page to print with e.g. "-4,7,9-12,15-",
> not ">=4 7 ...".  
> 
> Would the same notation be insufficient for our purpose?  You do not
> even have to worry about negation that way.
> 

That will do, especially if the numbers are in ascending order. We won't
have the odd cases of including a test and removing it later on. I think
we won't need a --neg flag to take the negation of the tests in that range?