doc: Improve setup_clean_chain documentation

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/example_test.py b/test/functional/example_test.py
index 97f24e1b6e..a0eb213a78 100755
--- a/test/functional/example_test.py
+++ b/test/functional/example_test.py
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ class ExampleTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         """Override test parameters for your individual test.
 
         This method must be overridden and num_nodes must be explicitly set."""
+        # By default every test loads a pre-mined chain of 200 blocks from cache.
+        # Set setup_clean_chain to True to skip this and start from the Genesis
+        # block.
         self.setup_clean_chain = True
         self.num_nodes = 3
         # Use self.extra_args to change command-line arguments for the nodes