From e40d214106d4d8c7c943546a686fd5d11da3aff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:33:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Mention files confval in "specifying code to check" (#13682)

See #13681
---
 docs/source/running_mypy.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/source/running_mypy.rst b/docs/source/running_mypy.rst
index 4173560b898b..1a14412e4a57 100644
--- a/docs/source/running_mypy.rst
+++ b/docs/source/running_mypy.rst
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Note that if you use namespace packages (in particular, packages without
     ...will type check the above string as a mini-program (and in this case,
     will report that ``list[int]`` is not callable).
 
+You can also use the :confval:`files` option in your :file:`mypy.ini` file to specify which
+files to check, in which case you can simply run ``mypy`` with no arguments.
+
 
 Reading a list of files from a file
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