emulators:export doesn't check if the target folder is empty...

[real-marshal]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 12.4.6

Platform: Fedora

[REQUIRED] Test case

If you run firebase emulators:export ., your working directory will be rimraf'd.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Run firebase emulators:export .

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

The command makes sure the path is empty and warns of deleting everything there. I see there's a --force flag, which I guess should prevent this check, but I didn't use it, yet still got this insane result.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Everything just disappears, all the code you haven't pushed yet gets completely obliterated...

[aalej]

Hi @real-marshal, sorry to hear that you encountered this issue and thanks for reporting this to us. I was able to reproduce the behavior you mentioned, and I agree that this should be improved to prevent the deletion of everything under the specified path especially if it contains your entire codebase.

I’ll notify our team about this so that they can take a look, and I’ll be marking this issue as reproducible.