patman: document how to run test suite via pytest

Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a
regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a
test failure.

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com>
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Maxim Cournoyer 2022-12-19 17:32:44 -05:00 committed by Simon Glass
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@ -684,6 +684,12 @@ Note that since the test suite depends on data files only available in
the git checkout, the `test` command is hidden unless `patman` is
invoked from the U-Boot git repository.
Alternatively, you can run the test suite via Pytest:
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd tools/patman && pytest
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.