Feature request: Filter archive command binaries with Filterset

[clundin55]

Motivation

In my development workflow I use nextest's archive command to cross-compile tests that run on a slower machine.

My test loop is:

1. Create nextest test archive.
2. Copy test archive to weaker host.
3. Run a subset of tests from nextest test archive with nextest run --archive-file -E 'package(sample-package).

This workflow works great. However, a lot of binaries in the archive are not needed in the test run. Since the test host is very slow, the larger archive takes a long time to de-compress.

Filtering out unused test binaries before archiving them would speed my workflow up.

Proposal

Introduce the filterset parameter to the archive command.

Filter out binaries whose tests are not included in the filterset before creating the test archive.

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

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[sunshowers]

Agreed, this would be valuable. We'd want to not allow test predicates since they require running the test binary (which may not be possible in cross-compilation scenarios), but otherwise this makes sense.

[sunshowers]

Related: #2344

[clundin55]

Thanks @sunshowers! I took a stab at this in #2670.

I look forward to your feedback.

[sunshowers]

Resolved by #2670 and #2697.