[PATCH v2 7/8] patman: document how to run test suite via pytest
Maxim Cournoyer
maxim.cournoyer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 15:52:56 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>
---
(no changes since v1)
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.
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2.38.1
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