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Author: zm711

.github/workflows/io-test.yml

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ jobs:
         # conda env update --name neo-test-env-${{ matrix.python-version }} --file environment_testing.yml --prune
 
       - name: Install git-annex
+        # this is the trick from the spikeinterface repo for getting git-annex to work with datalad
         shell: bash
         run: |
           pip install datalad-installer

neo/test/rawiotest/common_rawio_test.py

@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
     HAVE_DATALAD = True
 else:
     HAVE_DATALAD = False
-    warnings.warn("datalad failure")
+    # pytest skip doesn't explain why we are skipping. 
+    # warnings are easy to skip for users that don't want to have to read them.
+    warnings.warn("datalad failure. Please see installation instructions to run io-testing")
 
 # url_for_tests = "https://portal.g-node.org/neo/" #This is the old place
 repo_for_test = default_testing_repo