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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-08-27 22:12:20 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-08-27 22:12:20 -0400
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Document the [paths] section in the config file.
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:history: 20091127T200700, changes for 3.2
:history: 20100223T200600, changes for 3.3
:history: 20100725T211700, updated for 3.4
+:history: 20110827T212500, updated for 3.5.1, combining aliases
.. highlight:: console
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$ coverage combine
+If the different machines run your code from different places in their file
+systems, coverage won't know how to combine the data. You can tell coverage
+how the different locations correlate with a ``[paths]`` section in your
+configuration file. See :ref:`config_paths` for details.
+
.. _cmd_reporting: