From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Color skipped tests bold blue
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:20:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7va9wkd5u6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505AEB1B.7010702@gmail.com> (Stefano Lattarini's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:08:27 +0200")
Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Adam.
>
> On 09/20/2012 11:08 AM, Adam Spiers wrote:
>> Skipped tests indicate incomplete test coverage. Whilst this is
>> not a test failure or other error, it's still not complete
>> success, so according to the universal traffic lights coloring
>> scheme, yellow/brown seems more suitable than green. However,
>> it's more informational than cautionary, so instead we use blue
>> which is a universal color for information signs. Bold blue
>> should work better on both black and white backgrounds than
>> normal blue.
>>
> A very minor nit (feel free to ignore it): IMHO, it should be nice
> to state explicitly in the commit message that blue is already used
> by other testsuite-related software to highlight skipped tests; you
> can report the examples of at least Automake, Autotest and prove --
> and extra kudos if you find further examples ;-)
Thanks. Will tweak the proposed log message to include the above
when queuing the updated patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 11:50 [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive Adam Spiers
2012-09-17 20:11 ` Jeff King
2012-09-18 21:21 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 20:02 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-19 20:12 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 20:13 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 20:24 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] Color skipped tests blue Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 5:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-20 9:04 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 9:08 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] Color skipped tests bold blue Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 10:08 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-20 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-21 6:13 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] Color skipped tests blue Jeff King
2012-11-11 2:04 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-17 20:50 ` [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive Junio C Hamano
2012-09-18 21:36 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-18 21:59 ` Jeff King
2012-09-18 22:14 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] make " Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Change the color of individual known breakages Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Make 'not ok $count - $message' consistent with 'ok $count - $message' Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:50 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 23:45 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Color skipped tests the same as informational messages Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Refactor mechanics of testing in a sub test-lib Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:56 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 18:44 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 " Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] Test the test framework more thoroughly Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Treat unexpectedly fixed known breakages more seriously Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] Refactor mechanics of testing in a sub test-lib Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 19:37 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2012-09-19 20:15 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Test the test framework more thoroughly Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Treat unexpectedly fixed known breakages more seriously Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] make test output coloring more intuitive Jeff King
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