From 2e025b79a31e3113978c359ac41c59ac2da16851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Szabo Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 14:03:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs about tempdirs Help people who might want to reduce the number of temporary directories kept. #9599 --- doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst b/doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst index ebd74d42e..65bef5344 100644 --- a/doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst +++ b/doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst @@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ the system temporary directory. The base name will be ``pytest-NUM`` where ``NUM`` will be incremented with each test run. Moreover, entries older than 3 temporary directories will be removed. +The number of entries currently cannot be changed, but using the ``--basetemp`` +option will remove the directory before every run. Effectively meaning the tempfiles +of only the most recent run will be kept. + You can override the default temporary directory setting like this: .. code-block:: bash