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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2019-11-17 07:52:24 -0500
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2019-12-01 08:35:04 -0500
commit013e9de08c0747fddf92cc1fdac1d1f39185aa3b (patch)
treeada87dee565d5b167e424df6d9143ec49de349fa /doc
parent10e41ab0dc165b3fd010345ab0fb1ed319d2f230 (diff)
downloadpython-coveragepy-git-013e9de08c0747fddf92cc1fdac1d1f39185aa3b.tar.gz
Experimental: relative_files to support relative file names.
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-rw-r--r--doc/cmd.rst7
-rw-r--r--doc/config.rst9
-rw-r--r--doc/whatsnew5x.rst5
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cmd.rst b/doc/cmd.rst
index b945bf2c..4038fd82 100644
--- a/doc/cmd.rst
+++ b/doc/cmd.rst
@@ -270,8 +270,11 @@ different subdirectory. Coverage needs to know that different file paths are
actually the same source file for reporting purposes.
You can tell coverage.py how different source locations relate with a
-``[paths]`` section in your configuration file. See :ref:`config_paths` for
-details.
+``[paths]`` section in your configuration file (see :ref:`config_paths`).
+It might be more convenient to use the ``[run] relative_files``
+setting to store relative file paths (see :ref:`relative_files
+<config_run_relative_files>`).
+
If any of the data files can't be read, coverage.py will print a warning
indicating the file and the problem.
diff --git a/doc/config.rst b/doc/config.rst
index ed0024cb..052bb023 100644
--- a/doc/config.rst
+++ b/doc/config.rst
@@ -188,6 +188,15 @@ many processes. See :ref:`cmd_combining` for more information.
``plugins`` (multi-string): a list of plugin package names. See :ref:`plugins`
for more information.
+.. _config_run_relative_files:
+
+``relative_files`` (boolean, default False): *Experimental*: store relative
+file paths in the data file. This makes it easier to measure code in one (or
+multiple) environments, and then report in another. See :ref:`cmd_combining`
+for details.
+
+.. versionadded:: 5.0
+
.. _config_run_source:
``source`` (multi-string): a list of packages or directories, the source to
diff --git a/doc/whatsnew5x.rst b/doc/whatsnew5x.rst
index 9286d4ef..78f9832a 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew5x.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew5x.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ New Features
- You can specify the command line to run your program with the ``[run]
command_line`` configuration setting, as requested in :github:`695`.
+- An experimental ``[run] relative_files`` setting tells coverage to store
+ relative file names in the data file. This makes it easier to run tests in
+ one (or many) environments, and then report in another. It has not had much
+ real-world testing, so it may change in incompatible ways in the future.
+
- Environment variable substitution in configuration files now supports two
syntaxes for controlling the behavior of undefined variables: if ``VARNAME``
is not defined, ``${VARNAME?}`` will raise an error, and ``${VARNAME-default