id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
18296	Create the non-existing specified directory when running startapp	lgp171188@…	Bruno Alla	"The structure of the project created by 'django-admin.py startproject' has changed from Django 1.4. The 'manage.py' file is at the same level where the project folder containing settings.py, urls.py is present. In order to create an app within the project as was possible with Django < 1.4, the command to be used is 'python manage.py startapp <app name> <destination folder which is optional>. So if I execute the command ""python manage.py startapp myapp myproject"", there is an error that says ""Error: <full path>/<project name>/<project name>/__init__.py already exists, overlaying a project or app into an existing directory won't replace conflicting files"". The command actually expects an empty directory having the name of the app inside the project directory to work correctly. So the user has to create that directory and then create the app. This isn't very intuitive and django should create the app directory if it doesn't exist and then create the app to show the same behaviour as the previous versions.

One other way to work around this behaviour is to change to the project directory and then execute python ../manage.py startapp appname."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Core (Management commands)	1.5	Normal	fixed	manage.py, startapp	vanessagomes	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0