Tests in the root package are too slow

[mvdan]

They should either be made faster (parallel tests, or other fixes), or the slowest should be skipped on testing.Short().

At the moment, this is far from ideal:

$ go test -short
OK: 197 passed
PASS
ok      gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4        58.933s

I would have expected 10 seconds at most. Ideally, 2-3 seconds or less.

[mvdan]

Here's another - the tests aren't standard Go, so I can't use out of the box features like test's -v and -run. Is there a reason for that?

[mcuadros]

We want to change it to use asserty, as any other modern development at source{d}. But the current test suite is built on top of gocheck, this decision was made 3yrs ago, when was the default test framework for us, now we have a bunch of tests to change it, so its a lot of work for a little benefit.

[mvdan]

I honestly don't mind whatever test framework is used. But in my opinion, the end result is that regular Go tests are run, so that go test flags like -v and -run are useful. Otherwise, go test is little other than running some arbitrary Go program that fails or succeeds.

[mcuadros]

Yep, but sadly this, flags are "ignored" by gocheck. Since the whole testsuite runs under the same T