It's a limitation of the --initialize option used to create the database that it's very picky about what can be in datadir. It will ignore anything starting with a ., but for anything else it will fail (unless specified with --ignore-db-dir). That's the reason we assume that if there's anything in datadir we shouldn't run database initialization.
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