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authorGravatar Nathan Harmata <nharmata@google.com>2015-12-03 00:46:01 +0000
committerGravatar Kristina Chodorow <kchodorow@google.com>2015-12-03 18:37:39 +0000
commit2dbe1baf752339c9c4dc6baee929507ce4007e33 (patch)
tree3f8c91b9cdbb453738e8c688ced3aff065ef4666 /site
parente3681d1fb21efd7d0c597965c3642647649b417c (diff)
Explicitly mention that 'manual' test targets are not matched by wildcard target patterns and are thus neither built nor tested by invocations like "blaze test //my/project/..."
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-rw-r--r--site/docs/bazel-user-manual.html6
-rw-r--r--site/docs/test-encyclopedia.html2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/site/docs/bazel-user-manual.html b/site/docs/bazel-user-manual.html
index e712d562df..6ee605274a 100644
--- a/site/docs/bazel-user-manual.html
+++ b/site/docs/bazel-user-manual.html
@@ -520,9 +520,9 @@ Subtractive patterns:
building the former.
</p>
<p>
- Targets with <code>tags=["manual"]</code> will be ignored by all command line
- wildcards (..., :*, :all, etc). The only way to run such targets is to
- specify them explicitly on the command line.
+ Targets with <code>tags=["manual"]</code> will not be included in wildcard target patterns (...,
+ :*, :all, etc). You should specify such test targets with explicit target patterns on the command
+ line if you want Bazel to build/test them.
</p>
<h3 id='fetch'>Fetching external dependencies</h3>
diff --git a/site/docs/test-encyclopedia.html b/site/docs/test-encyclopedia.html
index d2501f1f68..f9e37e1621 100644
--- a/site/docs/test-encyclopedia.html
+++ b/site/docs/test-encyclopedia.html
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ prematurely and mark it as having failed.</p>
<tr>
<th><code>manual</code></th>
- <td>run test only if mentioned explicitly (not in a wildcard <code>:...</code>, <code>:*</code>, or <code>:all</code>)</td>
+ <td>don't include test target in wildcard target patterns like <code>:...</code>, <code>:*</code>, or <code>:all</code>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><code>medium</code></th>