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Keep temporary directory for failing tests only #8141
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plugin: tmpdirrelated to the tmpdir builtin pluginrelated to the tmpdir builtin plugintype: proposalproposal for a new feature, often to gather opinions or design the API around the new featureproposal for a new feature, often to gather opinions or design the API around the new feature
Currently pytest will keep the last 3 root temporary directories for each testing session, for all tests.
This proposal is to change this behavior to only keep the directories for failed tests, instead of for all tests. This would save significant disk space for test suites which manipulate large amounts of data in the temporary directories.
The behavior of keeping the last 3 root temporary directories would be kept unchanged.
From: #8036 (comment)
EDIT: after some discussion, the full proposal is defined in #8141 (comment).