From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:57:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHM3PdYGv12wAVuo22V2L97=9Sp3mpWPbqFeKDbGV24Ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201014175512.GA24279@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:55 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:39:01AM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:53 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > > When using the --run flag to run just two or three tests from a test
> > > > file which contains several dozen tests, having every skipped test print
> > > > out dozens of lines of output for the test code for that skipped test
> > > > adds up to hundreds or thousands of lines of irrelevant output that make
> > > > it very hard to fish out the relevant results you were looking for.
> > > > Simplify the output for skipped tests down to just showing the one-line
> > > > descriptions.
> > >
> > > This last sentence is inaccurate in this version, isn't it?
> >
> > Maybe I could make it clearer, but I think that it is accurate[1]. If
> > this wording seems confusing, though, I could simplify the commit
> > message by reducing the sentence to "Simplify the output for skipped
> > tests."
>
> Yeah, I wondered if you might have been thinking that. It makes sense in
> the context of the other discussion, but the single-line TAP output is
> not even mentioned here. And it might be worth doing so, because the
> real reason it is OK to delete this line entirely is that it is
> redundant with that line.
Makes sense; I'll update it to mention that, once the discussion on
how we want to handle regexes/globs/subshells for patch 1/3 is
resolved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 23:26 [PATCH 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-12 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-13 15:39 ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-13 17:23 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 17:28 ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-13 18:21 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-12 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-12 23:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-13 15:44 ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-13 17:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13 13:08 ` [PATCH 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Phillip Wood
2020-10-15 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-15 13:42 ` Phillip Wood
2020-10-13 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-13 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-14 17:04 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-14 18:07 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-14 19:41 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-14 19:49 ` Jeff King
2020-10-15 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-15 15:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-14 17:50 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-14 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-14 19:12 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-15 16:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-14 18:09 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 19:02 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-15 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-15 19:46 ` Jeff King
2020-10-15 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 0:38 ` Jeff King
2020-10-16 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 16:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 20:06 ` Jeff King
2020-10-16 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-13 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-14 16:53 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 17:39 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-14 17:55 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 17:57 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2020-10-13 19:49 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Taylor Blau
2020-10-14 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-14 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/glob with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 11:40 ` Phillip Wood
2020-10-16 17:27 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-16 18:24 ` Phillip Wood
2020-10-16 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 20:07 ` Jeff King
2020-10-14 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-14 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-15 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Jeff King
2020-10-16 19:28 ` [PATCH v4 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 19:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/glob with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 19:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 19:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 20:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-16 22:50 ` [PATCH v5 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 22:50 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/glob with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 23:25 ` Andrei Rybak
2020-10-17 23:43 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-16 22:50 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-16 22:50 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-18 0:23 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] Make test selection easier by specifying description substrings instead of just numeric counters Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-18 0:23 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/glob with --run Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-18 0:23 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-18 0:23 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CABPp-BHM3PdYGv12wAVuo22V2L97=9Sp3mpWPbqFeKDbGV24Ng@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=newren@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitgitgadget@gmail.com \
--cc=me@ttaylorr.com \
--cc=peff@peff.net \
--cc=phillip.wood123@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).