please add looponfailrootsignore option

[zsoldosp]

(I hope this is the right repo to open the issue, I arrived here via pytest-dev/pytest#679 pointing to #499).

I think #51 isn't a duplicate of this issue, though if the regex based watch list suggestion is the fix, that would solve this issue too.

I'm using https://pypi.org/project/vcrpy/ in some tests where I want to test my 3rd party API wrappers, and record the vcr files alongside the test files (similar to jest's snapshot testing approach). However, when I am just creating the API interaction, pytest --looponfail goes into an infinite loop, as the recorded file keeps updating.

It would be great if there was a looponfailrootsignore option, similar to the rsyncignore option

[zsoldosp]

the current workaround I'm using is the following hack in a conftest.py/pytest plugin

import xdist

orig_xdist_statrecorder_fil = xdist.looponfail.StatRecorder.fil


def xdist_statrecorder_fil_overwrite(self, p):
    orig_result = orig_xdist_statrecorder_fil(self, p)
    config = getattr(orig_xdist_statrecorder_fil, "config", None)
    if config and config.getoption("my_flag"):
        return orig_result and not my_custom_should_exclude(p)
    return orig_result

def my_custom_should_exclude(p):
   ....

xdist.looponfail.StatRecorder.fil = xdist_statrecorder_fil_overwrite


def pytest_cmdline_main(config):
    orig_xdist_statrecorder_fil.config = config