#17503: startproject can't create new project directly in current working
directory
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Reporter: carljm | Owner: carljm
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core | Version: 1.3
(Management commands) | Keywords:
Severity: Normal | Has patch: 0
Triage Stage: Accepted | Needs tests: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 |
UI/UX: 0 |
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The current fix for #17042, although it allows more flexibility with
regard to where `startproject` and `startapp` create the new app/project,
doesn't actually meet the original use case that motivated that ticket.
Several people (including at least one or two core devs) had
[http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/4d155579ab98c536
expressed the wish] to be able to take an existing directory that they had
already created (for instance, initialized as a vcs repo) and convert it
into a stock Django project using `startproject`. But the current
implementation of the optional second argument to `startproject` doesn't
allow you to ever reuse an existing directory, it always creates a new one
and just allows you to specify where it will do so. To make it clearer
with an example:
Current behavior:
{{{
$ mkdir /home/carljm/target
$ django-admin.py startproject someproj /home/carljm/target
$ tree /home/carljm/target/
/home/carljm/target/
`-- someproj
|-- manage.py
`-- someproj
|-- __init__.py
|-- settings.py
|-- urls.py
`-- wsgi.py
}}}
Desired behavior:
{{{
$ mkdir /home/carljm/target
$ django-admin.py startproject someproj /home/carljm/target
/home/carljm/target/
|-- manage.py
`-- someproj
|-- __init__.py
|-- settings.py
|-- urls.py
`-- wsgi.py
}}}
Jannis (author of r17246, the fix for #17042) agreed on IRC that this
behavior could be changed to meet the original use case.
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