6acb4d944d
The usage message says:
test [-c] [-i] [build and test flags] [packages] [flags for test binary]
but this was not what was implemented. Instead, after packages are named,
flag processing continues, which makes it impossible, for example, to pass
to the binary a flag with the same name as a test flag. This was triggered
by the -v flag in glog.
Consider this test:
package pkg
... imports ...
var v = flag.Int("v", 0, "v flag")
func TestFoo(t *testing.T) {
if *v != 7 { log.Fatal(*v) }
}
Attempting to run this test with go test pkg -v=7 would give a usage
message. This change allows it. In fact it allows
go test -v pkg -v=7
The solution is to implement the usage message. One compatibility
issue is that flags after the package name are no longer processed
as test flags, so this no longer works:
go test foo -cover
One must write
go test -cover foo
I do not think this is onerous but it must be called out in the
release notes.
Fixes #12177.
Change-Id: Ib9267884b47a6b0c183efa888ec78333272113aa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14826
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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