Documentation update for rootdir discovery
This covers issue https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1435.
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				|  | @ -48,6 +48,16 @@ Here is the algorithm which finds the rootdir from ``args``: | |||
|   directory. This allows to work with pytest in structures that are not part of | ||||
|   a package and don't have any particular ini-file configuration. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| If no ``args`` are given, pytest collects test below the current working | ||||
| directory and also starts determining the rootdir from there.  | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| :warning: custom pytest plugin commandline arguments may include a path, as in | ||||
|     ``py.test --log-output ../../test.log args``. Then ``args`` is mandatory, | ||||
|     otherwise pytest uses the folder of test.log for rootdir determination | ||||
|     (see also `issue 1435 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1435>`_). | ||||
|     A dot ``.`` for referencing to the current working directory is also | ||||
|     possible. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Note that an existing ``pytest.ini`` file will always be considered a match, | ||||
| whereas ``tox.ini`` and ``setup.cfg`` will only match if they contain a | ||||
| ``[pytest]`` section. Options from multiple ini-files candidates are never | ||||
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