Allow to specify Coverage XML output file

[blueyed]

I have not looked to deep, but only found this:

src/pytest_cov/engine.py
108: stream.write('Coverage XML written to file %s\n' % self.cov.config.xml_output)

Therefore it appears that the output path can only be configured through the .coveragerc file.

It would be nice if this could be passed in through an option to pytest-cov, e.g. --cov-xml-output=coverage2.xml.

[ionelmc]

That would overlap a bit with the --cov-report=xml option. Maybe --cov-report=xml should be implied if you use --cov-xml-output=coverage2.xml.

What if we'd be allowed to use --cov-report=xml:coverage2.xml (or similar)?

[The-Compiler]

What if we'd be allowed to use --cov-report=xml:coverage2.xml (or similar)?

That sounds good, and something similar could also be done for --cov-report=html:htmlcov2

[blueyed]

--cov-report=xml:coverage2.xml

👍

[ionelmc]

Actually this was fixed in #113.