Stack: Stack new on current directory

[CMCDragonkai]

Just wondering why there isn't an option to run stack new on the current directory? Sometimes I have created a project directory already, and i want to fill it up with files. I guess the main problem is what to do if the directory already contains files that exists. To be safe, you can report that such a file already exists, and you didn't replace it (rerun the command while removing the old file to replace the file).

[mgsloan]

I think that stack new --bare does what you want. Not sure if I like the flag name --bare. I guess it comes from git init --bare, but the analogy falls apart a bit.

What flag name would be clearer? stack new --current-dir?

[CMCDragonkai]

Why not just make stack new support directories that already exists. So you can then use . or ./somedirthatalreadyexists?

[mgsloan]

Because it doesn't take a directory name as an argument, it takes a package
name.

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Roger Qiu [e-mail] wrote:

Why not just make stack new support directories that already exists. So
you can then use . or ./somedirthatalreadyexists?

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