`Error: Directory already exists and contains files that might conflict. Please choose a new name.` on empty directory

[danthegoodman1]

What versions & operating system are you using?

macOS 15.5, node v22.16.0

Please provide a link to a minimal reproduction

No response

Describe the Bug

Creating a new cloudflare project from within an empty directory (./) always fails that it has files

Please provide any relevant error logs

dangoodman: ~/tangiaCode mkdir TangiaAppsDatastore                                                                                                   10:13AM
 dangoodman: ~/tangiaCode cd TangiaAppsDatastore                                                                                                      10:26AM
 dangoodman: ~/tangiaCode/TangiaAppsDatastore npm create cloudflare@latest .                                                                          10:26AM
Need to install the following packages:
create-cloudflare@2.50.2
Ok to proceed? (y)


> npx
> create-cloudflare .


──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
👋 Welcome to create-cloudflare v2.50.2!
🧡 Let's get started.
📊 Cloudflare collects telemetry about your usage of Create-Cloudflare.

Learn more at: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/blob/main/packages/create-cloudflare/telemetry.md
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

╭ Create an application with Cloudflare Step 1 of 3
│
├ In which directory do you want to create your application?
│ dir ./.
│
├ What would you like to start with?
│ category Hello World example
│
├ Which template would you like to use?
│ type Worker + Durable Objects
│
├ Which language do you want to use?
│ lang TypeScript
│
╰  ERROR  Error: Directory `/Users/dangoodman/tangiaCode/TangiaAppsDatastore` already exists and contains files that might conflict. Please choose a new name.

[danthegoodman1]

ofc later I get ERROR Error: Project names must only contain lowercase characters, numbers, and dashes. so maybe the error is wrong

[petebacondarwin]

This is kind of working as expected - the error being slightly wrong: the error is actually that the directory already exists. It is a requirement of C3 that it gets to create the directory.

That being said, I think we should consider supporting your case above. If we allow you to create an empty directory and run C3 from within it, that would make it slightly nicer for continuing on after the creation has completed.