debug sys now shows the path to the config file.

3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index bb54ec22..369e3190 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 Change history for Coverage.py
 ------------------------------
 
+Version 3.6b2
+-------------
+
+- ``debug sys`` now shows the configuration file path that was read.
+
+
 Version 3.6b1 -- 28 November 2012
 ---------------------------------
 
diff --git a/coverage/config.py b/coverage/config.py
index 8edd6c65..d8c40d28 100644
--- a/coverage/config.py
+++ b/coverage/config.py
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ class CoverageConfig(object):
     """
     def __init__(self):
         """Initialize the configuration attributes to their defaults."""
+        # Metadata about the config.
+        self.config_files = []
+
         # Defaults for [run]
         self.branch = False
         self.cover_pylib = False
@@ -154,6 +157,8 @@ class CoverageConfig(object):
         `filename` is a file name to read.
 
         """
+        self.config_files.append(filename)
+
         cp = HandyConfigParser()
         cp.read(filename)
 
diff --git a/coverage/control.py b/coverage/control.py
index 1f6dbd7e..4312f68c 100644
--- a/coverage/control.py
+++ b/coverage/control.py
@@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ class coverage(object):
             ('cover_dir', self.cover_dir),
             ('pylib_dirs', self.pylib_dirs),
             ('tracer', self.collector.tracer_name()),
+            ('config_files', self.config.config_files),
             ('data_path', self.data.filename),
             ('python', sys.version.replace('\n', '')),
             ('platform', platform.platform()),