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

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Elijah

I'm worryingly excited by this series

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.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Elijah Newren (3):
>    test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run
>    t6006, t6012: adjust tests to use 'setup' instead of synonyms
>    test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests
> 
>   t/README                     | 26 +++++++++++++++++------
>   t/t0000-basic.sh             | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   t/t6006-rev-list-format.sh   |  2 +-
>   t/t6012-rev-list-simplify.sh |  2 +-
>   t/test-lib.sh                | 15 +++++++------
>   5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: d98273ba77e1ab9ec755576bc86c716a97bf59d7
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-878%2Fnewren%2Ftest-selection-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-878/newren/test-selection-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/878
>