Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] test-lib: reduce verbosity of skipped tests

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

From: Elijah Newren <redacted>

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?

Other than that, I think this is a good change (I admit I never noticed
the irrelevant output because it is only shown with "-v", and that is
already full of irrelevant bits. But I have trouble imagining how it
would be useful).

Earlier discussion mentioned shortening the "ok 2 # skip" line, but I
think removing this fd-3 version is the only sane direction. The other
one gets parsed by TAP tools like prove, and may be shown. E.g., "prove
--directive t0003-attributes.sh" shows the description of the skipped
tests (likewise, "-v" shows all tests but highlights the skipped ones).

-Peff