Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

My plan is that you'd be able to say:

  Meta/make --test=filesystem,update-ref

for t0050 and t1400 respectively. Or more interesting things like
"git-svn-*" to skip all of the t91xx tests (or "git-svn/*" if we split
them by directories).

...
The word "filesystem"?  Unless we have a rule that we can use each
unique word in test names only once (which of course is impractical)
I am not sure I can use it in place of 0050 without checking names
of other tests first.

quoted

I definitely don't want to make anybody's life harder. But if the
numbers aren't unique and the text connected to them is, then it seems
like we should just use the text primarily.

True in principle, but it is harder to come up with unique substring
of text, knowing only that the whole string is unique.

I think there was a mismatch in assumptions and expectations.  I
think your "plan" was to use the whole name (what comes after \d+-
in the current naming scheme, except for the .sh at the end), and I
was assuming a glob with implicit * on both ends would be used, i.e.

    $ ls -d t/*update-ref*

would give me 1404 (update-ref-errors) in addition to 1400 (update-ref).

So if the rule is to always spell out the full name if I wanted
uniqueness, then it would work.  In the cited usecase of knowing
which two failed the first time, I should have the full filename
of them available.

Thanks.