Keep cypress video on demand#10558
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| Set a `VIDEO` environment variable if you need to keep `Cypress`'s video of a test run | ||
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| VIDEO=1 npx cypress --headless --browser chrome --spec cypress/e2e/... |
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Maybe we should use yarn here as our docs for tests usually refer to yarn?
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replaced to yarn
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By default, our
cypressconfiguration unlinks a video file after a run.While writing a test, we need to see videos even for successful runs. Usually this is done by uncommenting
fs.unlinkSync(results.video);, which is error-prone and leads to accidental commits made into theindex.jsfile, messing up commit history. This PR gives an option to override the file unlinking for troublehooting using an env variableAdded usage example into docs
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