[PATCH 8/9] patman: document how to run test suite via pytest

Maxim Cournoyer maxim.cournoyer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 02:59:21 CET 2022


Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a
regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a
test failure.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer at savoirfairelinux.com>
---

 tools/patman/patman.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst
index 8c5c9cc2cc..b06399b459 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patman.rst
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst
@@ -680,6 +680,12 @@ them:
 
     $ tools/patman/patman test
 
+Alternatively, you can run the test suite via Pytest:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ cd tools/patman && pytest
+
 Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
 putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.
 
-- 
2.38.1



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