outDir in angular-cli.json is not working

[Meligy]

1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

   OSX Yosemite

2. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run
   in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

   angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.14
   node: 6.3.1
   os: darwin x64
   

3. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you
   do on your code? etc.

   ng new sample-app
   cd sample-app
   

   Then open angular-cli.json and change outDir from "dist" to "dist2"

   ng build
   

4. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
   more information.

   No tool failure, but wrong outcome.

   The output would still go to dist (actual) instead of dist2 (expected).

5. Mention any other details that might be useful.

   I first tried this with ../external-folder and thought the ../ was the problem, but even just changing the folder name doesn't work.

[Meligy]

Note:

Changing the output directory from the ng build command itself works just fine.

Both ng build -o dist2 and ng build -o ../external-folder will output to dist2 and ../external-folder respectively, even on Windows (so, it's not OS seems irrelevant here).

It's changing outDir in angular-cli.json that seems to do nothing though.

[osnoser1]

Same issue in Windows 10 x64, angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.15, node: 6.5.0.

[filipesilva]

Dupe of #2006

[notresponding2u]

Try something like "./dist2". For me that worked even when I want it to build outside the project root.

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