The `grep` option may cause confusion about grunt-simple-mocha HOT 5 CLOSED

so if I can declare in my Gruntfile.js:

simplemocha: {
    all: { src: 'test/*-node.js' }
}

why would I need grep?

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@ekkis, the grep option does not filter files, but rather the tests themselves. It's a Mocha option. See Mocha's CLI options:

-g, --grep <pattern>                    only run tests matching <pattern>

It says "tests", which apparently means the description string of the describe() blocks.
Mocha will search for the grep pattern in the test description, and only run those tests that match.

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This repository should really remove the grep option from the examples. It will only confuse people and cause their setups to not run any tests! Because who writes describe() blocks containing the string -test in the test description?

Since the grep will match none of their describe blocks, then none of their tests will run. So grep should be removed from the examples.

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ah. that explains why I get 0 passing (0ms). LoL. thanks guys

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You're right— this is pretty confusing! Thank you for opening the issue and I'm sorry for the confusion. I've clarified in the docs that it merely passes the options to new Mocha

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