Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters

> On 13/10/2020 00:26, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > This patch series enables me to change
> >
> >   ./t9999-my-test.sh --run=1-3,5,17,19
> >
> > into
> >
> >   ./t9999-my-test.sh --run=setup,rename,symlink
> >
> > and have it pick out tests with "setup", "rename", or "symlink" in their
> > description and run those. Saves me a lot of time, especially since numbers
> > for tests aren't readily accessible. The easiest way for me to get the
> > numbers corresponding to the tests I want to run, is to run all the tests
> > and look at the output to match up the descriptions with their numbers --
> > thus defeating the point of selecting just a subset of the tests to run in
> > the first place.
>
> Yes it's a real pain to have to run all the tests to find the numbers of the
> ones you actually wanted to run. I like patch 3 as well, without it if you're
> only running a couple of tests it can be hard to find then amongst all the
> skipped tests. I had a quick read of the patches and they looked fine to me.