Re: [PATCH 0/9] ci: make Git's GitHub workflow output much more helpful

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi Junio,

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On that page, you see the following:
> >
> > 	Annotations
> > 	50 errors and 1 warning
> >
> > 	ⓧ win test (3)
> > 	  failed: t7527.1 explicit daemon start and stop
> > ...
> >
> > 	⚠ CI: .github#L1
> > 	  windows-latest workflows now use windows-2022. For more details, see https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/4856
> >
> > In my mind, this is already an improvement. (Even if this is a _lot_ of
> > output, and a lot of individual errors, given that all of them are fixed
> > with a single, small patch to adjust an option usage string, but that's
> > not the fault of my patch series, but of the suggestion to put the check
> > for the option usage string linting into the `parse_options()` machinery
> > instead of into the static analysis job.)
>
> It is not obvious what aspect in the new output _you_ found "an
> improvement" to your readers, because you didn't spell it out.

True.

The difference is those added lines that clearly indicate not only the
failed job, but also the precise test case that failed. All in the summary
page, without requiring any clicking nor scrolling.

Thank you,
Dscho