diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index eae5943ea..7109389d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
-addopts = "--cov=git --cov-report=term --disable-warnings"
+addopts = "--cov=git --cov-report=term --disable-warnings -ra"
 filterwarnings = "ignore::DeprecationWarning"
 python_files = "test_*.py"
 tmp_path_retention_policy = "failed"
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ testpaths = "test"  # Space separated list of paths from root e.g test tests doc
 # --cov-report html:path  # html file at path
 # --maxfail  # number of errors before giving up
 # -disable-warnings  # Disable pytest warnings (not codebase warnings)
-# -rf   # increased reporting of failures
-# -rE   # increased reporting of errors
+# -rfE  # default test summary: list fail and error
+# -ra   # test summary: list all non-passing (fail, error, skip, xfail, xpass)
 # --ignore-glob=**/gitdb/*  # ignore glob paths
 # filterwarnings ignore::WarningType  # ignores those warnings