Is there another forum I can ask about this? Should this be a feature request against the go team directly? It seems strange that the formats haven't been converged, or that there's no way to get the new binary format from `go test`
Cheers, Paul On Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 1:26:04 PM UTC-5 Paul Chesnais (papacharlie) wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to be able to merge the data from the output of `go test -cover` > with the output of a run using `go build -cover` but it seems that there's > no way to translate the "legacy" format from go test into the new binary > format. This means it's not possible to use the built-in tooling like `go > tool covdata merge`. There is of course the possibility of translating the > binary format back into the legacy format using textfmt but then there's > still no good way to merge the coverage data without using some custom > tooling like https://github.com/wadey/gocovmerge. > > As far as I can tell there's also no way to get clever and get `go test > -c` to build with the binary with the `-cover` flag because that build flag > gets eaten up by `go test`. It seems there's no way to get the new coverage > format from go test, unless I'm missing something? > > Just looking for any insights on this, thanks in advance! > > Paul > -- 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. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d7b799e4-49a6-417d-8b13-65b5b244c11cn%40googlegroups.com.
