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diff --git a/site/docs/user-manual.html b/site/docs/user-manual.html index 16655a55bc..41fd48c013 100644 --- a/site/docs/user-manual.html +++ b/site/docs/user-manual.html @@ -455,6 +455,14 @@ Subtractive patterns: under 'contrib' depends on something under 'contrib' though, in order to build the former bazel has to build the latter too. As usual, the '--' is required to prevent '-f' from being interpreted as an option. + + When running the test command, test suite expansion is applied to each target + pattern in sequence as the set of targets is evaluated. This means that + individual tests from a test suite can be excluded by a later target pattern. + It also means that an exclusion target pattern which matches a test suite will + exclude all tests which that test suite references. (Targets that would be + matched by the list of target patterns without any test suite expansion are + also built unless --build_tests_only is set.) </pre> <p> Whereas <a href="build-ref.html#labels">labels</a> are used |