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coverage erase doesn't remove files generated by parallel/concurrency #635

Open nedbat opened 6 years ago

nedbat commented 6 years ago

Originally reported by Anonymous

Hi,

When running coverage erase, I would expect it cleans .coverage.xx.yy files generated by the previous multithreaded run.

However, on a pure implementation point of view, it might be better to not make it a default, but add a --parallel option to the cleancommand instead.

nedbat commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Jonathan Huot (Bitbucket: JonathanHuot, GitHub: JonathanHuot)

(owner of the issue above)

Note that the workaround is simple:

#!shell

coverage combine || true
coverage erase

However it makes things a bit odd, e.g. before I fully understood that coverage erase was not erasing my files, I published multiples times wrong reports.