Documentation update for rootdir discovery
This covers issue https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1435.
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@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ Here is the algorithm which finds the rootdir from ``args``:
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directory. This allows to work with pytest in structures that are not part of
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a package and don't have any particular ini-file configuration.
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If no ``args`` are given, pytest collects test below the current working
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directory and also starts determining the rootdir from there.
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:warning: custom pytest plugin commandline arguments may include a path, as in
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``py.test --log-output ../../test.log args``. Then ``args`` is mandatory,
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otherwise pytest uses the folder of test.log for rootdir determination
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(see also `issue 1435 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1435>`_).
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A dot ``.`` for referencing to the current working directory is also
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possible.
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Note that an existing ``pytest.ini`` file will always be considered a match,
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whereas ``tox.ini`` and ``setup.cfg`` will only match if they contain a
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``[pytest]`` section. Options from multiple ini-files candidates are never
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