From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: optionally print subtest number
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:14:54 -0400
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:25:14 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:18:16 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> > We don't actually have test names, at least not ones directly suitable
> > for file names.  I guess we could encode them or something, is that what
> > you mean?
> 
> Don't we?  There is at least a word/phrase that's consistent between the
> actual test script names, what is listed in the TESTS variable (below),
> and what is output when the tests are run (ie. "basic:" or
> "search-folder-coherence:").  Are those not test names?

OK, we can call those test names. This thread/patch is about "subtest
numbers", so finer granularity. There are an average of 10 subtests per
test, those are are the things that don't have names.

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