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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md b/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md index 6fda0f5f6..b5d3a1b81 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md @@ -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. diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/test_max_lines.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/test_max_lines.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea10fbb27 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/test_max_lines.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +## The Meson test program supports a new "--max-lines" argument + +By default `meson test` only shows the last 100 lines of test output from tests +that produce large amounts of output. This default can now be changed with the +new `--max-lines` option. For example, `--max-lines=1000` will increase the +maximum number of log output lines from 100 to 1000. |