TestMain is executed before flag.Parse in (*testing.M).Run.

I think this is intentional, because it provides a way to modify the
command line arguments. I you want testing.Short(), then you
should call flag.Parse() manually in TestMain.

In conclusion, I think a docs clarification is needed, it's not a bug.

Please include that testing.Verbose() also doesn't work in TestMain. Came here to post an issue about it, but now I see it's by design.

I really would like to see changed as well.
I was planning to use testMain as:

func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
    // Reset test db before running test.
    // The schema is only imported once for all test
    if !testing.Short() {
        fmt.Println("Initializing test DB for integration test (disable with `go test -short`)")
        initTestDB()
    }
    os.Exit(m.Run())
}

And initTestDB() is always run :(

I don't think this is going to change.

If you want to use testing.Verbose or testing.Short, call flag.Parse in
TestMain before using them.

Ok, thanks for the info

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