cargo new doesn’t handle empty directories

[nagisa]

cargo new . or cargo new existing-directory doesn’t work even if the directory in question is empty.

This is filled again because #526 and #21 (comment) are already closed.

[vi]

+1

$ mkdir rustquickchecktest
$ cd rustquickchecktest
$ cargo init
No such subcommand

    Did you mean `new`?

$ cargo new
Invalid arguments.

Usage:
    cargo new [options] <path>
    cargo new -h | --help
$ cargo new .
Destination `/home/vi/code/_/rustquickchecktest/.` already exists
$ cd ..
$ rmdir rustquickchecktest
$ cargo new rustquickchecktest
$ cd rustquickchecktest/ 

I'd like cargo init to be alias to cargo new, but also allowing pre-existing empty (or almost-empty, e.g. with .git/.gitignore) directory.

[alexcrichton]

Oh this is actually a dupe of #21, so closing for that, certainly a desired feature!

[vi]

There are many duplicates, but no pull requests, although the issue seems easy.

Are there some problem preventing cargo init or cargo new . to be done or it's just low priority?

[steveklabnik]

Nobody to write the patch.