NAME reduce-tests - Create a branch with fewer test files for faster development SYNOPSIS reduce-tests \ --dir=/path/to/git/workdir \ --include=t/90-load.t,t/91-unload.t \ --branch=master \ --prefix=smoke-me \ --remote=origin \ --verbose DESCRIPTION reduce-tests is a command-line utility which will be useful in the following situation: * You have a Perl library stored in a git repository. * You have a large test suite for that library which takes a non-trivial length of time to run. * You wish to run only a subset of those tests. reduce-tests enables you to copy a branch, remove files from that branch's test suite and run that reduced test suite. The test suite may be reduced either by: * Specifying only those test files you wish to include ("include=t/firstfile,t/secondfile"); or * Specifying all the test files you wish to exclude ("exclude=t/thirdfile,t/fourthfile"). This program is likely to be particularly useful in the situation where: * You are required to push all branches to a smoke server for testing. * That smoke-testing is activated by prefixing your remote branch with a string which your smoke-server recognizes as a request for a smoke run. * The smoke server is taking an inordinately long time to complete its test runs and/or is reporting failures in test files which you cannot reproduce in your development environment (*heisenfails*). If you have no immediate control over that smoke server, you can at least speed up your development cycle by running only the part of the test suite you need to focus on at a given moment. IMPLEMENTATION reduce-tests is implemented by CPAN distribution Git-Reduce-Tests. The minimum version of Perl needed to run this code is 5.6.0. BUGS There are no bug reports outstanding as of the most recent CPAN upload date of this distribution. SUPPORT Please report any bugs by mail to "bug-Git-Reduce-Tests@rt.cpan.org" or through the web interface at . AUTHOR James E. Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org). When sending correspondence, please include 'reduce-tests' or 'Git-Reduce-Tests' in your subject line. Creation date: August 03 2014. Last modification date: August 04 2014. Development repository: COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2014 James E. Keenan. United States. All rights reserved. This is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE ''AS IS'' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE AS PERMITTED BY THE ABOVE LICENCE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.