mocha 8.0.0 --watch throws "Mocha instance is already disposed" on code change

Created on 10 Jun 2020 · 5Comments · Source: mochajs/mocha

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Description

Mocha 8.0.0 does not seems to breaks when using --watch with message Mocha instance is already disposed

Steps to Reproduce

With Mocha 0.7.2 running the command below run the tests once and then on code change, execute again (as epected)

./node_modules/.bin/mocha -p ./test/tsconfig.json ./test/spec/*.spec.ts --watch --watch-files './test/**/*.ts','./src/**/*.ts'

With Mocha 8.0.0, run exact same command, on exact same code, will run the tests once correctly, but doing a code change will throw the following error in the terminal.

(node:8867) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Mocha instance is already disposed, cannot start a new test run. Please create a new mocha instance. Be sure to set disable `cleanReferencesAfterRun` when you want to reuse the same mocha instance for multiple test runs.
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