Fixed #20550 -- Added ability to preserve test db between runs

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 6bb67f01fc..9291479305 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1310,6 +1310,17 @@ The ``--liveserver`` option can be used to override the default address where
 the live server (used with :class:`~django.test.LiveServerTestCase`) is
 expected to run from. The default value is ``localhost:8081``.
 
+.. django-admin-option:: --keepdb
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+The ``--keepdb`` option can be used to preserve the test database between test
+runs. This has the advantage of skipping both the create and destroy actions
+which greatly decreases the time to run tests, especially those in a large
+test suite. If the test database does not exist, it will be created on the first
+run and then preserved for each subsequent run. Any unapplied migrations will also
+be applied to the test database before running the test suite.
+
 testserver <fixture fixture ...>
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