Vue-cli: Sitting build path to '/' wiped my drive

[smartprogrammer93]

Version

3.4.0

Environment info

Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Windows 10
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 11.0.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.4.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: 44.18329.1.0
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

use vue UI
Create a project and set the build path to '/'
start build

What is expected?

I thought that it would build on the same directory

What is actually happening?

It wiped off the whole drive and got stuck

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Obviously this is really dumb from my side and it's totally my mistake, but i think there should be a confirmation, a warning or something if such a parameter is provided.

[yyx990803]

Sorry to hear that. We can definitely warn if / is provided...
If we want to be extra careful, we can do a heuristic check based on the file layout to see if it looks like a typical dist folder (with only .js and .css files etc.)

[smartprogrammer93]

Yes that would be optimal

[Silksofthesoul]

Oh, the same thing happened to me! i lost my data :-(