-dir flag not being respected

[berwyn]

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Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.0.0
node: 7.7.1
os: win32 x64 (Windows 10 1703 Build 15063.14 "Creators Update" RC)
@angular/common: 4.0.1
@angular/compiler: 4.0.1
@angular/core: 4.0.1
@angular/flex-layout: 2.0.0-beta.7
@angular/http: 4.0.1
@angular/material: 2.0.0-beta.2
@angular/platform-browser: 4.0.1
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.0.1

Repro steps.

1. run ng new -dir foo myapp
2. Notice how the app is created in cwd, not in ./foo

The log given by the failure.

Correct output for app generation

Desired functionality.

The app should be created in ./foo, as indicated in the help text:

--directory (String) The directory name to create the app in.
  aliases: -dir <value>, --directory <value>

Mention any other details that might be useful.

[delasteve]

I was unable to reproduce this using

@angular/cli: 1.0.1
node: 7.9.0
os: win32 x64

Using ng new -dir foo someapp, when I lsed the parent directory, I got

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----        4/27/2017  11:58 AM                foo

[berwyn]

My apologies, I debugged it more and found that the issue required more specific conditions to dupe and forgot to update this bug report. This is specifically if a directory above contains a package.json file. In my case, I was building a group of modules with lerna, where one was an Angular app. Angular CLI 1.0.0 would create the app at the top-level next to package.json rather than in the directory specified by -dir. I have not attempted with 1.0.1 yet, so this may be fixed (I'll report back when I have a chance to test)

In other words, my expected setup was

ng new -dir packages/foo-app foo

resulting in

./
|- package.json # Top level
|- lerna.json
`- packages
   `- foo-app
     |- .angular-cli.json
     |- karma.conf.js
     ...

but instead I got

./
|- package.json
|- lerna.json
|- .angular-cli.json
|- karma.conf.js
...

[filipesilva]

I actually thought we fixed this already in #4901. Maybe something is broken.

[hansl]

This has been fixed a long time ago, never marked. If this still happens please create a new issue so we can follow up.

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