From a909ae3dbd310b73bbd8aacfa8d5663641d68f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:29:47 -0500
Subject: docs: clarify the CoverageData(basename=) argument. #985

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 coverage/sqldata.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'coverage/sqldata.py')

diff --git a/coverage/sqldata.py b/coverage/sqldata.py
index e5fee8ce..ea326d11 100644
--- a/coverage/sqldata.py
+++ b/coverage/sqldata.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class CoverageData(SimpleReprMixin):
 
         Arguments:
             basename (str): the base name of the data file, defaulting to
-                ".coverage".
+                ".coverage". This can be a path to a file in another directory.
             suffix (str or bool): has the same meaning as the `data_suffix`
                 argument to :class:`coverage.Coverage`.
             no_disk (bool): if True, keep all data in memory, and don't
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