1245433 - improve CLI output

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: mozregression, defect)

Description

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

I'm not really happy with the current mozregression output handling:

- we show things unnecessarily (Main Thread for example), thus wasting space and making logs harder to read.
- the --log-mach-level debug flag is too obscure, and we have plenty of useless --log-* args that are proposed to the user.

I want to improve all this. Just use a --debug flag, and modify the log formatting to be better suited for our use case, making mozregression output easily readable.

Also one thing that could be interesting is highlighting important messages. For example, *Pushlog url* may be highlighted in the terminal so it is quicker to find what we are looking for in the output (that's just an idea).

Comment 1

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Attachment: mozreg-log-win.png

impr ecran windows

Comment 2

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Attachment: mozreg-log-gnome.png

impr ecran linux

Comment 3

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Let's start with that.

Comment 4

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Attachment: better log output

You can see what it looks like with the screenshot above.

Comment 5

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Comment on attachment 8715246 [details] [review]
better log output

I really think this patch is great, so I land it without a review from your part :wlach.

Obviously we can change things later if you don't like it. :)

Comment 6

[Julien Pagès (:parkouss)]

Landed in https://github.com/mozilla/mozregression/commit/b5fd0529a05583b750c777fab46ec3fdebc14042.

Comment 7

[Loic]

I like this new colored formatting, ty!