Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Warn about --basetemp removing the entire directory #7555

Merged
Merged
Changes from 2 commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Diff view
Diff view
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions doc/en/tmpdir.rst
Expand Up @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ You can override the default temporary directory setting like this:

pytest --basetemp=mydir

.. warning:: The contents of ``mydir`` will be deleted.
When distributing tests on the local machine, ``pytest`` takes care to
configure a basetemp directory for the sub processes such that all temporary
data lands below a single per-test run basetemp directory.
Expand Down