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From: David Tran <unsignedzero@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:35:10 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140331T213335-569@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xmqqlhvq8fbw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com

> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>
> 
> I would have to say that there is already an established pattern to
> pick ranges that normal people understand well and it would be silly
> to invent another more verbose way to express the same thing.  You
> tell your Print Dialog which page to print with e.g. "-4,7,9-12,15-",
> not ">=4 7 ...".  
> 
> Would the same notation be insufficient for our purpose?  You do not
> even have to worry about negation that way.
> 

That will do, especially if the numbers are in ascending order. We won't
have the odd cases of including a test and removing it later on. I think
we won't need a --neg flag to take the negation of the tests in that range?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24  8:49 [RFC/PATCH] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24 11:39   ` Ramsay Jones
2014-03-24 17:19     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-25 17:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27  9:39         ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 16:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 17:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-25  5:52   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: tests skipped by GIT_SKIP_TESTS say so Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24 23:03 ` [RFC/PATCH] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Jeff King
2014-03-25  4:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 10:15     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32 ` [RFC/PATCH v2] " Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: tests skipped by GIT_SKIP_TESTS say so Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-28  3:36     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-28  7:05       ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-30  9:41         ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-31 17:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 19:35             ` David Tran [this message]
2014-04-22  8:19 [RFC/PATCH v3] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-22  8:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-23 18:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30  9:40     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-30 14:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 19:51   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-04-30  9:41     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-30  9:50 ` [RFC/PATCH v4] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-30  9:50   ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-05-06 20:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 21:02       ` Junio C Hamano

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