Is there a way to prevent `cargo nextest list` from listing every individual file?

[Kriskras99]

As the title indicates I was wondering if there's anyway to prevent cargo nextest list from listing every individual file? I have a few thousand (!) test files belonging to around 5 test functions. cargo nextest list lists every single one of them, which fills up the terminal and makes it impossible to find other tests. Is there a way to only show the function name as the test?

[sunshowers]

Hi! At the moment, no it's not. That seems like a deficiency, though, and I think one that should be fixed in nextest.

I think we can do something like:

If:

• There are more than (a new CLI option) --limit (default 100) tests within a binary, and
• We're printing to an interactive terminal (this is important because we don't want to break the | grep use case)

Then:

• Shorten the list of tests to e.g. 10
• Print "(... and XXX more tests)"
• Also print a hint at the end to use --limit=all or --verbose to print all tests.

[sunshowers]

Note that you are going to run into https://github.com/nextest-rs/datatest-stable/issues/8 as the number of files grows. If you or someone else would like to fix it, help would be greatly appreciated!