Re: [PATCH] Allow multiple tests to be run from a Python test script

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006, Michael Haggerty wrote:
...
> We at cvs2svn also use the "svntest" framework for testing the
> conversion script (via svn:externals). While working on that
> project, I came up with a few ideas for improvements to svntest that
> I would like to submit.
>
> The first one is in the attachment. It allows an arbitrary subset of
> tests to be run in one invocation of a test script, using something like
>
> $ ./test-script 3 7 9

This is an excellent idea.
 
> For orthogonality it also allows the information about specified tests
> to be printed out:
>
> $ ./test-script list 3 7 9

This is reasonable, especially once the list command is turned into a
--list argument.
 
...
> (I think it would be nice to change the "list" subcommand into a
> "--list" option, but that change is not included here.)

+1, I'd like to see this as well.

Michael, many thanks for the terrific description and flawless patch.
I've committed the patch to Subversion trunk in r19144.

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Daniel Rall