There is a 2013 proposal from Russ Cox that includes a -watch flag in the go tool.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xl_aRcCbksFRmCKtoyRQG9L7j6DIdMZtrkFAoi5EXaA/edit "a possible extension would be to add -watch flag to “go test,” “go > install,” and “go run,” which would repeat the command each time a > prerequisite file was modified. For example, running “go test -watch” in a > terminal window would automatically show compile errors or test output each > time a source file was saved." That might be nice to see, but it isn't a trivial project. Nathan. On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 13:02:08 UTC-6, Zellyn wrote: > > I run go tests with something like this: > > while true; do go test ./foo/bar; fswatch -1 -r . > /dev/null; sleep 0.3; > done > > > It would be nice if go test could do that itself. (The 0.3 second sleep is > to let the file-write that triggered the test complete.) > > > Zellyn > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 2:54:49 PM UTC-4, Jaana Burcu Dogan wrote: >> >> Hello gophers, >> >> I am going to spend some time on improving the not-documented or >> hard-to-use parts of the Go tools. I will mainly focus on go build and go >> test. The work will consist of reorganizing manuals, proposing new >> subcommands or flags to support commonly used multi-step things and so on. >> >> To give you some concrete examples: >> >> I have been in cases where users cannot find the build flags because they >> are hidden. E.g. >> >> $ go test -help >> test [build/test flags] [packages] [build/test flags & test binary >> flags] >> ... >> >> requires you to know about where the build flags are. Some tools are >> invisible for the newcomers. >> >> The other example is about test coverage. It is so tedious that I need an >> alias. >> >> func gocover() { >> go test -v -coverprofile=coverage.out && go tool cover >> -html=coverage.out >> } >> >> I want to learn more about your experience, aliases, etc to propose >> improvements and work on the most commonly suggested items. I also am >> planning to go through this mailing list, stack overflow and other channels >> to see the common complaints. >> >> Feel free to reply to this thread or write to me privately. >> >> Thanks, >> JBD >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
