"conda env remove" will delete a directory named like the environment

[sdvillal]

This is, I think, a very unfortunate bug of conda-env:

mkdir -p test/i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir
cd test
conda env remove -n i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir

conda goes wild and deletes the i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir directory.

I'm on these versions of conda/conda-env:

conda                     4.1.12                   py27_0    conda-forge
conda-env                 2.5.2                    py27_0    conda-forge

[sdvillal]

Note that this happens only if the environment does not exist. Extended example:

mkdir -p test/i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir
conda create -n i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir python
cd test
# run this, the environment gets removed and the directory is not touched
conda env remove -n i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir  
# run it again, the directory is removed
conda env remove -n i-do-not-want-to-delete-this-dir

[dsm054]

I just got burned by this. One of my team speculated that it might be a consequence of some legacy local-folder-environment support, but whether that's true or not it seems needlessly dangerous in practice.

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