Re: [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive

On 09/17/2012 10:11 PM, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:50:37PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:

quoted

The end result of these changes is that:

  - red is _only_ used for things which have gone unexpectedly wrong:
    test failures, unexpected test passes, and failures with the
    framework,

  - yellow is _only_ used for known breakages, and

  - green is _only_ used for things which have gone to plan and
    require no further work to be done.

Sounds reasonable, and I think the new output looks nice. I notice that
skipped tests are still in green. I wonder if they should be in yellow,
too.

What about blue instead?   This would keep the colouring scheme more
consistent with the one used by prove:
  <http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Test-Harness/bin/prove>
by autotest:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest>
and by the Automake-generated test harness:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites>

Just my 2 cents,
  Stefano