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authorRegina Pfeifer <regina@mailbox.org>2018-12-09 21:10:31 (GMT)
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Help: clarify documentation of ctest --timeout
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Do not use.
``--timeout <seconds>``
- Set a global timeout on all tests.
+ Set the default test timeout.
- This option will set a global timeout on all tests that do not
- already have a timeout set on them.
+ This option effectively sets a timeout on all tests that do not
+ already have a timeout set on them via the :prop_test:`TIMEOUT`
+ property.
``--stop-time <time>``
Set a time at which all tests should stop running.