From 57f8f5d2b313b9601872a1184a809060468a606e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 14:38:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Mention basetemp in docs as a way to only keep last temp dir
 (#9607)

Closes #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..b261a5563 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 temporary directories
+of only the most recent run will be kept.
+
 You can override the default temporary directory setting like this:
 
 .. code-block:: bash