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authorAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2014-06-01 17:26:56 +0200
committerAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2014-06-01 17:26:56 +0200
commit2a5c750ad151c51d875d41eb080e4c160e8a2627 (patch)
treeed35040a099c4c1aaac576ebae85cd71f11315dd /docs/topics
parent83e7555ffee305c1ea1e0655fd1f0aa35269533f (diff)
parentb7aa7c4ab4372d2b7994d252c8bc87f77dd217ae (diff)
Merge pull request #2726 from gchp/ticket-20550
Fixed #20550 -- Added ability to preserve test db between runs
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@@ -149,6 +149,14 @@ Tests that require a database (namely, model tests) will not use your "real"
Regardless of whether the tests pass or fail, the test databases are destroyed
when all the tests have been executed.
+.. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+ You can prevent the test databases from being destroyed by adding the
+ :djadminopt:`--keepdb` flag to the test command. This will preserve the test
+ database between runs. If the database does not exist, it will first
+ be created. Any migrations will also be applied in order to keep it
+ up to date.
+
By default the test databases get their names by prepending ``test_``
to the value of the :setting:`NAME` settings for the databases
defined in :setting:`DATABASES`. When using the SQLite database engine