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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2013-09-26 22:24:01 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2013-09-26 22:24:01 -0400
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Allow relative paths in the [paths] aliases. #267.
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:history: 20100824T092900, added ``precision``.
:history: 20110604T184400, updated for 3.5.
:history: 20110827T212700, updated for 3.5.1
+:history: 20130926T222300, updated for 3.6.1
Coverage.py options can be specified in a configuration file. This makes it
@@ -130,7 +131,8 @@ list.
The first value must be an actual file path on the machine where the reporting
will happen, so that source code can be found. The other values can be file
-patterns to match against the paths of collected data.
+patterns to match against the paths of collected data, or they can be absolute
+or relative file paths on the current machine.
See :ref:`cmd_combining` for more information.