App created by ng new is created in wrong place

[aklinkert]

Tried to use ng new project-name. The project get's created, but the path is wrong. My source code is located in a my /src/apinnecke directory. When I execute the ng new project-name inside of /src/apinnecke the project get's created at /src/project-name. Steps to reproduce are as follows:

$ mkdir -p /src/apinnecke
$ cd /src/apinnecke/
$ ng new project-name
$ ls -a
. ..
$ ls -a ..
. .. project-name

Am i missing a configuration step or am I having a strange setup here? Totally confused. Took me about 10 minutes to find out where the project got created.

Host machine is an OSX El Capitan:

[apinnecke:~] 4s $ uname -a
Darwin minas-tirith 15.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.5.0: Tue Apr 19 18:36:36 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.50.21~8/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

[apinnecke:~] $ ng --version
Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.5
node: 5.11.1
os: darwin x64
[apinnecke:~] $

[Trendy]

I'm unable to reproduce this on OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), following the same steps.

[Christopotamus]

Can you post an ls -a of your /src directory? I know I have this problem with some yeoman generators which will create things in the wrong directory based on some hidden files ,so maybe that's what's going on there?

[aklinkert]

@Christopotamus sure thing.

[apinnecke:/src] $ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  12 apinnecke  admin   408B 16 Jun 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x  33 root       wheel   1,2K 13 Jun 15:50 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 apinnecke  admin   6,0K 11 Mär 08:51 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  13 apinnecke  admin   442B 14 Jun 15:49 apinnecke
drwxr-xr-x   5 apinnecke  admin   170B 25 Mai 22:08 go
drwxr-xr-x   4 apinnecke  admin   136B  4 Mai 16:38 temp
-rw-r--r--@  1 apinnecke  admin    51B 11 Mär 08:51 wlan.txt
drwxr-xr-x   8 apinnecke  admin   272B 20 Mai 13:08 zazu
[apinnecke:/src] $ cd apinnecke/
[apinnecke:/src/apinnecke] $ ll
total 130640
drwxr-xr-x  13 apinnecke  admin   442B 14 Jun 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 apinnecke  admin   408B 16 Jun 11:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x  17 apinnecke  admin   578B 20 Apr 14:47 conventional-github-releaser
drwxr-xr-x  20 apinnecke  admin   680B 23 Apr 16:08 deployment-talk
drwxr-xr-x   9 apinnecke  admin   306B 12 Mai 11:58 docker-nodejs-build-tools
drwxr-xr-x   8 apinnecke  admin   272B 13 Jun 15:54 json-fixtures
drwxr-xr-x   9 apinnecke  admin   306B 17 Mär 23:12 npm-publish-slack-bot
drwxr-xr-x   9 apinnecke  admin   306B 16 Mär 22:37 npm-tooling-example
drwxr-xr-x  17 apinnecke  admin   578B 14 Jun 15:50 project-name
drwxr-xr-x@ 20 apinnecke  staff   680B 18 Apr 10:02 zazu-meetup-master
-rw-r--r--@  1 apinnecke  staff    64M 15 Apr 09:00 zazu-meetup-master.zip
drwxr-xr-x  20 apinnecke  admin   680B 20 Apr 00:11 zazujs-talk
[apinnecke:/src/apinnecke] $

Removed some of the source directories since it's internal stuff, but that's basically it.

[aklinkert]

OH! Got it. try to add a package.json in /src/package.json, that will reproduce the issue. Removed that one after testing the project-name stuff because it was a backup of something older, so I abandoned it.

Can you please check now if you're able to reproduce?

[filipesilva]

Possibly related: #1045

[adamduren]

I can reproduce the issue with @apinnecke method. Removing the package.json in my home folder resolves the issue.

[hansl]

Closing this as package.json indicates where the project is.

[filipesilva]

This issue shouldn't happen anymore even with package.json in parent directories, due to the fix in #4901.

[alexispolak]

Same to me, Ubuntu 16.10, Nodejs v6.10.1, npm 4.2.0 when i make "ng new Project-name" the folder is created in the root directory rather in the directory i am in. #5483

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