From: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:12:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120919201201.GD19246@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505A24EC.1000203@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:02:52PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 10:11 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:50:37PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >
> >> The end result of these changes is that:
> >>
> >> - red is _only_ used for things which have gone unexpectedly wrong:
> >> test failures, unexpected test passes, and failures with the
> >> framework,
> >>
> >> - yellow is _only_ used for known breakages, and
> >>
> >> - green is _only_ used for things which have gone to plan and
> >> require no further work to be done.
> >
> > Sounds reasonable, and I think the new output looks nice. I notice that
> > skipped tests are still in green. I wonder if they should be in yellow,
> > too.
> >
> What about blue instead? This would keep the colouring scheme more
> consistent with the one used by prove:
> <http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Test-Harness/bin/prove>
> by autotest:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest>
> and by the Automake-generated test harness:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites>
Sounds good to me! Blue is the conventional color for informational
signs, so seems like a natural fit for skipped tests. Not sure
whether it should be bold or not though? I'll wait for a more solid
group consensus before re-rolling yet another patch :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-19 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 11:50 [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive Adam Spiers
2012-09-17 20:11 ` Jeff King
2012-09-18 21:21 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 20:02 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-19 20:12 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
2012-09-19 20:13 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 20:24 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] Color skipped tests blue Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 5:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-20 9:04 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 9:08 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] Color skipped tests bold blue Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 10:08 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-20 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 6:13 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] Color skipped tests blue Jeff King
2012-11-11 2:04 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-17 20:50 ` [PATCH] Make test output coloring more intuitive Junio C Hamano
2012-09-18 21:36 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-18 21:59 ` Jeff King
2012-09-18 22:14 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] make " Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Change the color of individual known breakages Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Make 'not ok $count - $message' consistent with 'ok $count - $message' Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:50 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 23:45 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Color skipped tests the same as informational messages Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Refactor mechanics of testing in a sub test-lib Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:56 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 18:44 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 " Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] Test the test framework more thoroughly Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:49 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Treat unexpectedly fixed known breakages more seriously Adam Spiers
2012-09-20 21:13 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] Refactor mechanics of testing in a sub test-lib Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 19:37 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2012-09-19 20:15 ` Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Test the test framework more thoroughly Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Treat unexpectedly fixed known breakages more seriously Adam Spiers
2012-09-19 18:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] make test output coloring more intuitive Jeff King
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