`poetry new` refuses to run on an existing dir - no way to override according to help options.

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Issue

I was just trying to start a new project. I created a git repo, then ran “poetry new --src .” and it failed as follows:

[RuntimeError]                                        
Destination /.../myproject exists and is not empty

Caution in a tool of this nature is well warranted, but allowing me to say “I know, I don’t care, just do it” should also be an option.

[brycedrennan]

@jdemilledt is correct.

poetry new is for creating a new project. It creates a folder (and thus can’t create one if you pass it an existing folder). So proper use is poetry new non-existing-folder

For an exising folder use poetry init

[jdemilledt]

I’m not the developer, so I can’t fully answer your question, but I think the new command exists for people who don’t already have an existing project structure.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 5:42 PM Curtis Maloney [e-mail] wrote:

In that case, why have it at all? Is it not a pointless, confusing duplicate of init?

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