From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655631F4B4 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2393582AbgJPUWP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:22:15 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:56825 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2393560AbgJPUWP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:22:15 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F9A1012DB; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:22:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=kEuKKbCorXluMEb3oawNXS3laIw=; b=KZGjjB 8QErVVXChlmfR1ducHgAfh4pa0GUVW38yesrJ4HFSEPi91KvcPtFAGbOvcwnpq90 1SOCsSNWIMKfCbAbIVQYaLZewhSfd6WvQ7MBzszpXHzgjjropdhTQWbh1tQAM1Xj gSSxOhVXyq4DovLi/NoX22Yw+CF6S9RHY99UY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=FJGAcWeWHDwxM0/oY+qHdAdXMweRrab3 0QaaTmHfy0zBbD0zVp6mVNUzVggQlOigYldXDP5G8aQhdqafGqxwbxVIYcsZFJ0r J252vecqs147pWy/ACr/X73tkGLh5FKm1+SCWOzmaS3ALK39yp1xgEdMf9Oxkb18 8XAPkXKBOfs= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916A51012DA; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:22:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D07831012D9; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:22:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood , Taylor Blau , Elijah Newren Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run References: <41e2528e83ba7087c9d21f0b15efed416f1512f8.1602616786.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> <20201014170413.GB21687@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20201015194648.GB1490964@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20201016003847.GB2932796@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20201016200642.GB3355643@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:22:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20201016200642.GB3355643@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:06:42 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4544268E-0FED-11EB-A523-E43E2BB96649-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > I think we are on the same page, and my intent was to match full names. > > So now you get "t0050" from some failed-test output (prove, or just the > output from make failing), and you copy it into the command-line to use > with "--test". And instead you'd just copy the full text name. It's a > little less convenient because t1234 is short enough that I'd type it, > and I'd probably cut-and-paste the text name. But other than that, I'd > expect the procedure to be the same. Most often, they are no longer in my scroll buffer, though. Two 4-digit integers I can easily hold in my head and type. Full names of two test scripts? That's a bit taxing. So, not really.