----- Original Message -----
> On 2/27/2014 10:00 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> > - If there is a TEST-FAIL or a TEST-UNEXPECTED-PASS, then the failure
> > itself is logged, along with some number of messages (currently capped at
> > 100) since the start of the test or the last failure.  The intent here was
> > to provide most of the benefits of suppressing messages while still
> > showing some record of what the test was doing prior to the failure.
> Is there a reason why it's not every message since the start of the
> current test or the 100 most recent, whichever is greater? I imagine
> that seeing the entire output of the single test that failed might be
> useful in many circumstances.

Sorry, my explanation was bogus.  The intent and implementation is that you see 
the last 100 messages produced by the test.  Of course it is possible that you 
would see fewer if your test hasn't produced that many messages yet.

> > - If you run a single test locally, then all the messages produced by the
> > test will be shown.
> Is there a mach flag which can force full logging of an entire run
> whether it's a single test or an entire directory/manifest?

No.  Bikeshedding on the proper option spelling (I believe Honza has weighed in 
that --verbose would be sufficient) welcome in bug 969437.

-Nathan
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