pytest-dev / pytest-dev/pytest-xdist
please add looponfailrootsignore option
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(I hope this is the right repo to open the issue, I arrived here via https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/679 pointing to https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/499).
I think https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/51 isn't a duplicate of this issue, though if the regex based watch list suggestion is the fix, that would solve this issue too.
I'm using https://pypi.org/project/vcrpy/ in some tests where I want to test my 3rd party API wrappers, and record the vcr files alongside the test files (similar to jest's snapshot testing approach). However, when I am just creating the API interaction, pytest --looponfail goes into an infinite loop, as the recorded file keeps updating.
It would be great if there was a looponfailrootsignore option, similar to the rsyncignore option
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Start at the pytest --looponfail entry point and compare its file-watching behavior with the rsyncignore option mentioned in the issue. Trace how watched roots and ignored paths are configured, then add coverage showing that changes to ignored roots do not trigger another loop while other changes still do.
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- python
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- testing
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- Feature
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