Currently the merge-layout-test-results script outputs log lines like follows;
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webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-actual.txt from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/13/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-actual.txt']
webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-diff.txt from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/13/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-diff.txt']
webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-expected.txt from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/13/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-expected.txt']
webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-pretty-diff.html from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/13/layout-test-results/webexposed/nonstable-css-properties-pretty-diff.html']
webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/permissions-attribute-actual.txt from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/1/layout-test-results/webexposed/permissions-attribute-actual.txt']
webkitpy.layout_tests.merge_results: [DEBUG] Creating merged /b/rr/tmpQBh8cg/w/layout-test-results/webexposed/permissions-attribute-diff.txt from ['/tmp/tmpo30YKt/1/layout-test-results/webexposed/permissions-attribute-diff.txt']
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It would be much better if the script output log lines with a timestamp in a manner similar to run-webkit-tests like follows;
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16:21:12.616 21420 worker/7 renderer crashed
16:21:12.663 21411 worker/2 virtual/gpu/fast/canvas/canvas-resize-after-paint-without-layout.html passed
16:21:12.716 21415 worker/5 virtual/disable-spinvalidation/paint/invalidation/overflow-flipped-writing-mode-block.html failed:
16:21:12.716 21415 worker/5 text diff
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Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Jun 24 2017