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27854	Make `collectstatic` warn (rather than blow up) on missing directories	David Evans	Jacob Walls	"At present if the `STATICFILES_DIRS` setting contains references to directories which do not exist then the whole command will die with an `OSError`.

A situation I've seen bite a few newcomers to Django is that they will have an empty static directory which (being empty) won't get tracked by git. This means that `collectstatic` works when they run it locally, but blows up with a (to them) cryptic error when they try to deploy.

If we made `collectstatic` simply log a warning in the case of non-existent directories and continue processing then we could avoid this problem and remove one possible source of frustration for newcomers.

If this approach seems acceptable to others I am happy to submit an appropriate patch."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	contrib.staticfiles	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0