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Update docs about tempdirs
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Update doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst
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Expand Up @@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ the system temporary directory. The base name will be ``pytest-NUM`` where
``NUM`` will be incremented with each test run. Moreover, entries older
than 3 temporary directories will be removed.

The number of entries currently cannot be changed, but using the ``--basetemp``
option will remove the directory before every run, effectively meaning the temporary directories
of only the most recent run will be kept.

You can override the default temporary directory setting like this:

.. code-block:: bash
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