Prepare release version 6.1.1

[6.1.x] terminal: fix crash in header reporting when absolute testpaths is used

changelog/1477.doc.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Removed faq.rst and its reference in contents.rst.

changelog/1953.bugfix.rst

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Fixed error when overwriting a parametrized fixture, while also reusing the super fixture value.
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    # conftest.py
-    import pytest
-
-
-    @pytest.fixture(params=[1, 2])
-    def foo(request):
-        return request.param
-
-
-    # test_foo.py
-    import pytest
-
-
-    @pytest.fixture
-    def foo(foo):
-        return foo * 2

changelog/4984.bugfix.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed an internal error crash with ``IndexError: list index out of range`` when
-collecting a module which starts with a decorated function, the decorator
-raises, and assertion rewriting is enabled.

changelog/5585.breaking.rst

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-As per our policy, the following features which have been deprecated in the 5.X series are now
-removed:
-
-* The ``funcargnames`` read-only property of ``FixtureRequest``, ``Metafunc``, and ``Function`` classes. Use ``fixturenames`` attribute.
-
-* ``@pytest.fixture`` no longer supports positional arguments, pass all arguments by keyword instead.
-
-* Direct construction of ``Node`` subclasses now raise an error, use ``from_parent`` instead.
-
-* The default value for ``junit_family`` has changed to ``xunit2``. If you require the old format, add ``junit_family=xunit1`` to your configuration file.
-
-* The ``TerminalReporter`` no longer has a ``writer`` attribute. Plugin authors may use the public functions of the ``TerminalReporter`` instead of accessing the ``TerminalWriter`` object directly.
-
-* The ``--result-log`` option has been removed. Users are recommended to use the `pytest-reportlog <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-reportlog>`__ plugin instead.
-
-
-For more information consult
-`Deprecations and Removals <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/deprecations.html>`__ in the docs.

changelog/6681.improvement.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Internal pytest warnings issued during the early stages of initialization are now properly handled and can filtered through :confval:`filterwarnings` or ``--pythonwarnings/-W``.
-
-This also fixes a number of long standing issues: `#2891 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/2891>`__, `#7620 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7620>`__, `#7426 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7426>`__.

changelog/6981.deprecation.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The ``pytest.collect`` module is deprecated: all its names can be imported from ``pytest`` directly.

changelog/7097.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The ``pytest._fillfuncargs`` function is deprecated. This function was kept
-for backward compatibility with an older plugin.
-
-It's functionality is not meant to be used directly, but if you must replace
-it, use `function._request._fillfixtures()` instead, though note this is not
-a public API and may break in the future.

changelog/7210.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-The special ``-k '-expr'`` syntax to ``-k`` is deprecated. Use ``-k 'not expr'``
-instead.
-
-The special ``-k 'expr:'`` syntax to ``-k`` is deprecated. Please open an issue
-if you use this and want a replacement.

changelog/7255.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The :func:`pytest_warning_captured <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_warning_captured>` hook is deprecated in favor
-of :func:`pytest_warning_recorded <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_warning_recorded>`, and will be removed in a future version.

changelog/7536.trivial.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The internal ``junitxml`` plugin has rewritten to use ``xml.etree.ElementTree``.
-The order of attributes in XML elements might differ. Some unneeded escaping is
-no longer performed.

changelog/7572.improvement.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-When a plugin listed in ``required_plugins`` is missing or an unknown config key is used with ``--strict-config``, a simple error message is now shown instead of a stacktrace.

changelog/7587.trivial.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The dependency on the ``more-itertools`` package has been removed.

changelog/7591.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-pylint shouldn't complain anymore about unimplemented abstract methods when inheriting from :ref:`File <non-python tests>`.

changelog/7628.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed test collection when a full path without a drive letter was passed to pytest on Windows (for example ``\projects\tests\test.py`` instead of ``c:\projects\tests\pytest.py``).

changelog/7631.trivial.rst

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The result type of :meth:`capfd.readouterr() <_pytest.capture.CaptureFixture.readouterr>` (and similar) is no longer a namedtuple,
-but should behave like one in all respects. This was done for technical reasons.

changelog/7638.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix handling of command-line options that appear as paths but trigger an OS-level syntax error on Windows, such as the options used internally by ``pytest-xdist``.

changelog/7648.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The ``gethookproxy()`` and ``isinitpath()`` methods of ``FSCollector`` and ``Package`` are deprecated;
-use ``self.session.gethookproxy()`` and ``self.session.isinitpath()`` instead.
-This should work on all pytest versions.

changelog/7667.feature.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-New ``--durations-min`` command-line flag controls the minimal duration for inclusion in the slowest list of tests shown by ``--durations``. Previously this was hard-coded to ``0.005s``.

changelog/7671.trivial.rst

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-When collecting tests, pytest finds test classes and functions by examining the
-attributes of python objects (modules, classes and instances). To speed up this
-process, pytest now ignores builtin attributes (like ``__class__``,
-``__delattr__`` and ``__new__``) without consulting the :confval:`python_classes` and
-:confval:`python_functions` configuration options and without passing them to plugins
-using the :func:`pytest_pycollect_makeitem <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_pycollect_makeitem>` hook.

changelog/7685.improvement.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Added two new attributes :attr:`rootpath <_pytest.config.Config.rootpath>` and :attr:`inipath <_pytest.config.Config.inipath>` to :class:`Config <_pytest.config.Config>`.
-These attributes are :class:`pathlib.Path` versions of the existing :attr:`rootdir <_pytest.config.Config.rootdir>` and :attr:`inifile <_pytest.config.Config.inifile>` attributes,
-and should be preferred over them when possible.

changelog/7742.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed INTERNALERROR when accessing locals / globals with faulty ``exec``.

changelog/7780.improvement.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Public classes which are not designed to be inherited from are now marked `@final <https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.final>`_.
-Code which inherits from these classes will trigger a type-checking (e.g. mypy) error, but will still work in runtime.
-Currently the ``final`` designation does not appear in the API Reference but hopefully will in the future.

doc/en/announce/index.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Release announcements
    :maxdepth: 2
 
 
+   release-6.1.1
+   release-6.1.0
    release-6.0.2
    release-6.0.1
    release-6.0.0

doc/en/announce/release-6.1.0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+pytest-6.1.0
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the 6.1.0 release!
+
+This release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and breaking changes, so users
+are encouraged to take a look at the CHANGELOG carefully:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html
+
+For complete documentation, please visit:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from PyPI via:
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* C. Titus Brown
+* Drew Devereux
+* Faris A Chugthai
+* Florian Bruhin
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Hynek Schlawack
+* Joseph Lucas
+* Kamran Ahmad
+* Mattreex
+* Maximilian Cosmo Sitter
+* Ran Benita
+* Rüdiger Busche
+* Sam Estep
+* Sorin Sbarnea
+* Thomas Grainger
+* Vipul Kumar
+* Yutaro Ikeda
+* hp310780
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-6.1.1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+pytest-6.1.1
+=======================================
+
+pytest 6.1.1 has just been released to PyPI.
+
+This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::
+
+  pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Ran Benita
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/builtin.rst

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         cache.get(key, default)
         cache.set(key, value)
 
-        Keys must be a ``/`` separated value, where the first part is usually the
+        Keys must be ``/`` separated strings, where the first part is usually the
         name of your plugin or application to avoid clashes with other cache users.
 
         Values can be any object handled by the json stdlib module.
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``byte`` objects.
 
     doctest_namespace [session scope]
-        Fixture that returns a :py:class:`dict` that will be injected into the namespace of doctests.
+        Fixture that returns a :py:class:`dict` that will be injected into the
+        namespace of doctests.
 
     pytestconfig [session scope]
         Session-scoped fixture that returns the :class:`_pytest.config.Config` object.
@@ -89,8 +90,10 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         automatically XML-encoded.
 
     record_testsuite_property [session scope]
-        Records a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``. This is suitable to
-        writing global information regarding the entire test suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
+        Record a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``.
+
+        This is suitable to writing global information regarding the entire test
+        suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
 
         This is a ``session``-scoped fixture which is called with ``(name, value)``. Example:
 
@@ -102,6 +105,12 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
 
         ``name`` must be a string, ``value`` will be converted to a string and properly xml-escaped.
 
+        .. warning::
+
+            Currently this fixture **does not work** with the
+            `pytest-xdist <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist>`__ plugin. See issue
+            `#7767 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7767>`__ for details.
+
     caplog
         Access and control log capturing.
 
@@ -114,8 +123,10 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         * caplog.clear()         -> clear captured records and formatted log output string
 
     monkeypatch
-        The returned ``monkeypatch`` fixture provides these
-        helper methods to modify objects, dictionaries or os.environ::
+        A convenient fixture for monkey-patching.
+
+        The fixture provides these methods to modify objects, dictionaries or
+        os.environ::
 
             monkeypatch.setattr(obj, name, value, raising=True)
             monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
@@ -126,10 +137,9 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
             monkeypatch.syspath_prepend(path)
             monkeypatch.chdir(path)
 
-        All modifications will be undone after the requesting
-        test function or fixture has finished. The ``raising``
-        parameter determines if a KeyError or AttributeError
-        will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
+        All modifications will be undone after the requesting test function or
+        fixture has finished. The ``raising`` parameter determines if a KeyError
+        or AttributeError will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
 
     recwarn
         Return a :class:`WarningsRecorder` instance that records all warnings emitted by test functions.
@@ -140,30 +150,28 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
     tmpdir_factory [session scope]
         Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.TempdirFactory` instance for the test session.
 
-
     tmp_path_factory [session scope]
         Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.TempPathFactory` instance for the test session.
 
-
     tmpdir
-        Return a temporary directory path object
-        which is unique to each test function invocation,
-        created as a sub directory of the base temporary
-        directory.  The returned object is a `py.path.local`_
-        path object.
+        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
+        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
+        directory.
+
+        The returned object is a `py.path.local`_ path object.
 
         .. _`py.path.local`: https://py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/path.html
 
     tmp_path
-        Return a temporary directory path object
-        which is unique to each test function invocation,
-        created as a sub directory of the base temporary
-        directory.  The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path`
-        object.
+        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
+        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
+        directory.
+
+        The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path` object.
 
         .. note::
 
-            in python < 3.6 this is a pathlib2.Path
+            In python < 3.6 this is a pathlib2.Path.
 
 
     no tests ran in 0.12s

doc/en/changelog.rst

@@ -28,6 +28,178 @@ with advance notice in the **Deprecations** section of releases.
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+pytest 6.1.1 (2020-10-03)
+=========================
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- `#7807 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7807>`_: Fixed regression in pytest 6.1.0 causing incorrect rootdir to be determined in some non-trivial cases where parent directories have config files as well.
+
+
+- `#7814 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7814>`_: Fixed crash in header reporting when :confval:`testpaths` is used and contains absolute paths (regression in 6.1.0).
+
+
+pytest 6.1.0 (2020-09-26)
+=========================
+
+Breaking Changes
+----------------
+
+- `#5585 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/5585>`_: As per our policy, the following features which have been deprecated in the 5.X series are now
+  removed:
+
+  * The ``funcargnames`` read-only property of ``FixtureRequest``, ``Metafunc``, and ``Function`` classes. Use ``fixturenames`` attribute.
+
+  * ``@pytest.fixture`` no longer supports positional arguments, pass all arguments by keyword instead.
+
+  * Direct construction of ``Node`` subclasses now raise an error, use ``from_parent`` instead.
+
+  * The default value for ``junit_family`` has changed to ``xunit2``. If you require the old format, add ``junit_family=xunit1`` to your configuration file.
+
+  * The ``TerminalReporter`` no longer has a ``writer`` attribute. Plugin authors may use the public functions of the ``TerminalReporter`` instead of accessing the ``TerminalWriter`` object directly.
+
+  * The ``--result-log`` option has been removed. Users are recommended to use the `pytest-reportlog <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-reportlog>`__ plugin instead.
+
+
+  For more information consult
+  `Deprecations and Removals <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/deprecations.html>`__ in the docs.
+
+
+
+Deprecations
+------------
+
+- `#6981 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6981>`_: The ``pytest.collect`` module is deprecated: all its names can be imported from ``pytest`` directly.
+
+
+- `#7097 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7097>`_: The ``pytest._fillfuncargs`` function is deprecated. This function was kept
+  for backward compatibility with an older plugin.
+
+  It's functionality is not meant to be used directly, but if you must replace
+  it, use `function._request._fillfixtures()` instead, though note this is not
+  a public API and may break in the future.
+
+
+- `#7210 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7210>`_: The special ``-k '-expr'`` syntax to ``-k`` is deprecated. Use ``-k 'not expr'``
+  instead.
+
+  The special ``-k 'expr:'`` syntax to ``-k`` is deprecated. Please open an issue
+  if you use this and want a replacement.
+
+
+- `#7255 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7255>`_: The :func:`pytest_warning_captured <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_warning_captured>` hook is deprecated in favor
+  of :func:`pytest_warning_recorded <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_warning_recorded>`, and will be removed in a future version.
+
+
+- `#7648 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7648>`_: The ``gethookproxy()`` and ``isinitpath()`` methods of ``FSCollector`` and ``Package`` are deprecated;
+  use ``self.session.gethookproxy()`` and ``self.session.isinitpath()`` instead.
+  This should work on all pytest versions.
+
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- `#7667 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7667>`_: New ``--durations-min`` command-line flag controls the minimal duration for inclusion in the slowest list of tests shown by ``--durations``. Previously this was hard-coded to ``0.005s``.
+
+
+
+Improvements
+------------
+
+- `#6681 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6681>`_: Internal pytest warnings issued during the early stages of initialization are now properly handled and can filtered through :confval:`filterwarnings` or ``--pythonwarnings/-W``.
+
+  This also fixes a number of long standing issues: `#2891 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/2891>`__, `#7620 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7620>`__, `#7426 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7426>`__.
+
+
+- `#7572 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7572>`_: When a plugin listed in ``required_plugins`` is missing or an unknown config key is used with ``--strict-config``, a simple error message is now shown instead of a stacktrace.
+
+
+- `#7685 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7685>`_: Added two new attributes :attr:`rootpath <_pytest.config.Config.rootpath>` and :attr:`inipath <_pytest.config.Config.inipath>` to :class:`Config <_pytest.config.Config>`.
+  These attributes are :class:`pathlib.Path` versions of the existing :attr:`rootdir <_pytest.config.Config.rootdir>` and :attr:`inifile <_pytest.config.Config.inifile>` attributes,
+  and should be preferred over them when possible.
+
+
+- `#7780 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7780>`_: Public classes which are not designed to be inherited from are now marked `@final <https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.final>`_.
+  Code which inherits from these classes will trigger a type-checking (e.g. mypy) error, but will still work in runtime.
+  Currently the ``final`` designation does not appear in the API Reference but hopefully will in the future.
+
+
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- `#1953 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1953>`_: Fixed error when overwriting a parametrized fixture, while also reusing the super fixture value.
+
+  .. code-block:: python
+
+      # conftest.py
+      import pytest
+
+
+      @pytest.fixture(params=[1, 2])
+      def foo(request):
+          return request.param
+
+
+      # test_foo.py
+      import pytest
+
+
+      @pytest.fixture
+      def foo(foo):
+          return foo * 2
+
+
+- `#4984 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/4984>`_: Fixed an internal error crash with ``IndexError: list index out of range`` when
+  collecting a module which starts with a decorated function, the decorator
+  raises, and assertion rewriting is enabled.
+
+
+- `#7591 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7591>`_: pylint shouldn't complain anymore about unimplemented abstract methods when inheriting from :ref:`File <non-python tests>`.
+
+
+- `#7628 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7628>`_: Fixed test collection when a full path without a drive letter was passed to pytest on Windows (for example ``\projects\tests\test.py`` instead of ``c:\projects\tests\pytest.py``).
+
+
+- `#7638 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7638>`_: Fix handling of command-line options that appear as paths but trigger an OS-level syntax error on Windows, such as the options used internally by ``pytest-xdist``.
+
+
+- `#7742 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7742>`_: Fixed INTERNALERROR when accessing locals / globals with faulty ``exec``.
+
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- `#1477 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1477>`_: Removed faq.rst and its reference in contents.rst.
+
+
+
+Trivial/Internal Changes
+------------------------
+
+- `#7536 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7536>`_: The internal ``junitxml`` plugin has rewritten to use ``xml.etree.ElementTree``.
+  The order of attributes in XML elements might differ. Some unneeded escaping is
+  no longer performed.
+
+
+- `#7587 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7587>`_: The dependency on the ``more-itertools`` package has been removed.
+
+
+- `#7631 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7631>`_: The result type of :meth:`capfd.readouterr() <_pytest.capture.CaptureFixture.readouterr>` (and similar) is no longer a namedtuple,
+  but should behave like one in all respects. This was done for technical reasons.
+
+
+- `#7671 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7671>`_: When collecting tests, pytest finds test classes and functions by examining the
+  attributes of python objects (modules, classes and instances). To speed up this
+  process, pytest now ignores builtin attributes (like ``__class__``,
+  ``__delattr__`` and ``__new__``) without consulting the :confval:`python_classes` and
+  :confval:`python_functions` configuration options and without passing them to plugins
+  using the :func:`pytest_pycollect_makeitem <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_pycollect_makeitem>` hook.
+
+
 pytest 6.0.2 (2020-09-04)
 =========================
 

doc/en/getting-started.rst

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Install ``pytest``
 .. code-block:: bash
 
     $ pytest --version
-    pytest 6.0.2
+    pytest 6.1.1
 
 .. _`simpletest`:
 

doc/en/writing_plugins.rst

@@ -33,26 +33,34 @@ Plugin discovery order at tool startup
 
 ``pytest`` loads plugin modules at tool startup in the following way:
 
-* by loading all builtin plugins
+1. by scanning the command line for the ``-p no:name`` option
+   and *blocking* that plugin from being loaded (even builtin plugins can
+   be blocked this way). This happens before normal command-line parsing.
 
-* by loading all plugins registered through `setuptools entry points`_.
+2. by loading all builtin plugins.
 
-* by pre-scanning the command line for the ``-p name`` option
-  and loading the specified plugin before actual command line parsing.
+3. by scanning the command line for the ``-p name`` option
+   and loading the specified plugin. This happens before normal command-line parsing.
 
-* by loading all :file:`conftest.py` files as inferred by the command line
-  invocation:
+4. by loading all plugins registered through `setuptools entry points`_.
 
-  - if no test paths are specified use current dir as a test path
-  - if exists, load ``conftest.py`` and ``test*/conftest.py`` relative
-    to the directory part of the first test path.
+5. by loading all plugins specified through the :envvar:`PYTEST_PLUGINS` environment variable.
 
-  Note that pytest does not find ``conftest.py`` files in deeper nested
-  sub directories at tool startup.  It is usually a good idea to keep
-  your ``conftest.py`` file in the top level test or project root directory.
+6. by loading all :file:`conftest.py` files as inferred by the command line
+   invocation:
 
-* by recursively loading all plugins specified by the
-  :globalvar:`pytest_plugins` variable in ``conftest.py`` files
+   - if no test paths are specified, use the current dir as a test path
+   - if exists, load ``conftest.py`` and ``test*/conftest.py`` relative
+     to the directory part of the first test path. After the ``conftest.py``
+     file is loaded, load all plugins specified in its
+     :globalvar:`pytest_plugins` variable if present.
+
+   Note that pytest does not find ``conftest.py`` files in deeper nested
+   sub directories at tool startup.  It is usually a good idea to keep
+   your ``conftest.py`` file in the top level test or project root directory.
+
+7. by recursively loading all plugins specified by the
+   :globalvar:`pytest_plugins` variable in ``conftest.py`` files.
 
 
 .. _`pytest/plugin`: http://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/src/tip/pytest/plugin/

src/_pytest/config/findpaths.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import itertools
 import os
 from typing import Dict
 from typing import Iterable
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@ def locate_config(
         args = [Path.cwd()]
     for arg in args:
         argpath = absolutepath(arg)
-        for base in itertools.chain((argpath,), reversed(argpath.parents)):
+        for base in (argpath, *argpath.parents):
             for config_name in config_names:
                 p = base / config_name
                 if p.is_file():
@@ -184,9 +183,7 @@ def determine_setup(
         ancestor = get_common_ancestor(dirs)
         rootdir, inipath, inicfg = locate_config([ancestor])
         if rootdir is None and rootdir_cmd_arg is None:
-            for possible_rootdir in itertools.chain(
-                (ancestor,), reversed(ancestor.parents)
-            ):
+            for possible_rootdir in (ancestor, *ancestor.parents):
                 if (possible_rootdir / "setup.py").is_file():
                     rootdir = possible_rootdir
                     break

src/_pytest/terminal.py

@@ -718,10 +718,10 @@ class TerminalReporter:
         if config.inipath:
             line += ", configfile: " + bestrelpath(config.rootpath, config.inipath)
 
-        testpaths = config.getini("testpaths")
+        testpaths = config.getini("testpaths")  # type: List[str]
         if testpaths and config.args == testpaths:
-            rel_paths = [bestrelpath(config.rootpath, x) for x in testpaths]
-            line += ", testpaths: {}".format(", ".join(rel_paths))
+            line += ", testpaths: {}".format(", ".join(testpaths))
+
         result = [line]
 
         plugininfo = config.pluginmanager.list_plugin_distinfo()

testing/test_config.py

@@ -1375,6 +1375,21 @@ class TestRootdir:
         assert rootpath == tmp_path
         assert inipath is None
 
+    def test_with_config_also_in_parent_directory(
+        self, tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        """Regression test for #7807."""
+        (tmp_path / "setup.cfg").write_text("[tool:pytest]\n", "utf-8")
+        (tmp_path / "myproject").mkdir()
+        (tmp_path / "myproject" / "setup.cfg").write_text("[tool:pytest]\n", "utf-8")
+        (tmp_path / "myproject" / "tests").mkdir()
+        monkeypatch.chdir(tmp_path / "myproject")
+
+        rootpath, inipath, _ = determine_setup(None, ["tests/"])
+
+        assert rootpath == tmp_path / "myproject"
+        assert inipath == tmp_path / "myproject" / "setup.cfg"
+
 
 class TestOverrideIniArgs:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", "setup.cfg tox.ini pytest.ini".split())

testing/test_terminal.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import pytest
 from _pytest._io.wcwidth import wcswidth
 from _pytest.config import Config
 from _pytest.config import ExitCode
+from _pytest.monkeypatch import MonkeyPatch
 from _pytest.pathlib import Path
 from _pytest.pytester import Testdir
 from _pytest.reports import BaseReport
@@ -749,6 +750,29 @@ class TestTerminalFunctional:
         result = testdir.runpytest("tests")
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(["rootdir: *test_header0, configfile: tox.ini"])
 
+    def test_header_absolute_testpath(
+        self, testdir: Testdir, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        """Regresstion test for #7814."""
+        tests = testdir.tmpdir.join("tests")
+        tests.ensure_dir()
+        testdir.makepyprojecttoml(
+            """
+            [tool.pytest.ini_options]
+            testpaths = ['{}']
+        """.format(
+                tests
+            )
+        )
+        result = testdir.runpytest()
+        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
+            [
+                "rootdir: *absolute_testpath0, configfile: pyproject.toml, testpaths: {}".format(
+                    tests
+                )
+            ]
+        )
+
     def test_no_header(self, testdir):
         testdir.tmpdir.join("tests").ensure_dir()
         testdir.tmpdir.join("gui").ensure_dir()