Doc confusion and tmp_path fixture failing in pytest 8

[sarnold]

First, I have some working (with pytest 7) tmp_path/session fixtures to reuse a tmp_path directory containing dummy git repos. The session scope fixture is using this: tmp_path_factory.mktemp(request.session.name) which breaks in pytest 8.

In the changelog for 8.0.0rc1 there's a note:

session.name is now ""; previously it was the rootdir directory name. This matches session.nodeid which has always been "".

But in the latest docs it still says this in the Session class:

name: str
    A unique name within the scope of the parent node.

When I run the tests with pytest 8 i get the following exception for each test:

>       return tmp_path_factory.mktemp(request.session.name)
E       ValueError: . is not a normalized and relative path

tests/conftest.py:51: ValueError

so it's not clear if request.session.name is supposed to get populated or not? Is there some other attribute I should use? Or do I need to abandon my current fixtures and do something else?

My current conftest.py I'd appreciate any helpful feedback. Thanks!

[sarnold]

Aaaand right after I finished that ^^ it occurred to me I could try tmp_path_factory.getbasetemp().name instead.