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

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Phillip Wood wrote:

I'm worryingly excited by this series

FWIW I am in the same boat.

On 13/10/2020 00:26, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

quoted

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.

I learned the trick to run with `--run=0` just to figure out the numbers
in a recent Outreachy project, I think it was Slavica who taught me.

But yes, without patch 3, the output looks awfully verbose and you have to
scroll back an insane amount of lines for long test scripts.

Giddy,
Dscho