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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2024-06-02 11:33:07 +0200
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2024-06-17 19:30:10 +0300
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Add meson test --max-lines
Let's allow users to configure how many lines are shown at most when a test fails.
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@@ -274,6 +274,14 @@ other useful information as the environmental variables. This is
useful, for example, when you run the tests on Travis-CI, Jenkins and
the like.
+By default, the output from tests will be limited to the last 100 lines. The
+maximum number of lines to show can be configured with the `--max-lines` option
+*(added 1.5.0)*:
+
+```console
+$ meson test --max-lines=1000 testname
+```
+
**Timeout**
In the test case options, the `timeout` option is specified in a number of seconds.