From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>,
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-w 101/105] t6300 (for-each-ref): modernize style
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty28n244.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301051010.GE2572@tgrennan-laptop> (Tom Grennan's message of "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:10:10 -0800")
I sent out a reply to the same effect as Junio's longer one in this
side-thread. You can disregard that. Sorry for not first reading the
whole thread.
Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It's trivial to remove these "quiet" and "silent", but to me that's the
>>> only value added by these patches. More seriously, the remaining
>>> modernization still seems much larger than its value.
>>
>>Don't do that, then ;-).
>>
>>Some older scripts do redirect the output from the commands to /dev/null
>>but that dates back before we made the default reasonably silent, and in
>>"modern" style we tend to keep them sent to their standard output to help
>>debuggability. These quiet/silent takes us to the prehistoric times.
>
> Hey! I am prehistoric:-)
>
> Like I said, I think there is currently a debug distraction with verbose
> mode. However, rather than hiding expected failures and diverting other
> output as I had, perhaps we should dup stderr to stdout in verbose mode
> so error messages show up near the logged invocation when piped through
> a pager (i.e. mimic "|&"). With this, one can quickly scan past the
> noise to focus on the broken cases.
If you have trouble finding the broken case, you can run with -v -i.
I also think you are making an argument for a different feature (which
does not rob us of having all the debug output): test-lib.sh could
perhaps redirect the test output to a file, and dump the file to stdout
only if the test failed. Perhaps --verbose-failing or something like
that.
Otherwise, your proposal is restricting us to having only an "easily
scannable" amount of output per test, perhaps 5-15 lines. Which I
personally think is an insane restriction for something that was
intended for debugging in the first place.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 19:43 [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern> Tom Grennan
2012-02-09 19:43 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-10 0:00 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-10 6:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-10 18:55 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 3:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 10:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 14:06 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-11 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:47 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 7:50 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-11 8:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 5:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 6:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 9:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 10:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 14:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:08 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 0/5] " Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 1/5] refs: add match_pattern() Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-22 23:47 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-23 0:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-23 0:59 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 2/5] tag --points-at option wrapper Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 3/5] tag --exclude option Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-23 0:22 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-23 1:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] modernize test style Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 8:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-03 17:42 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] t7004 (tag): modernize style Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 21:31 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-03 17:33 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 101/105] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 102/105] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 103/105] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 104/105] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 105/105] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 6:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-01 15:58 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 8:36 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 101/105] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 3:20 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 3:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 5:10 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 5:57 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 8:42 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-03-01 15:48 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 102/105] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 103/105] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 104/105] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 105/105] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 4/5] branch --exclude option Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 5/5] for-each-ref " Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] refs: add common refname_match_patterns() Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 7:12 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-11 19:17 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-13 5:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 17:27 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 8:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:37 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 16:29 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] tag: use refs.c:refname_match_patterns() Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 3/4] branch: " Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 4/4] for-each-ref: " Tom Grennan
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