Cargo initializes a new git repo within existing git repo when using a deep/path/to/project

[aryzing]

Problem

I'm trying to understand whether cargo's behavior when creating a new project inside a git repo is working as intended. When creating a new project at the top level of an existing repo, it does not initialize a new git repo within the created project. However, when initializing a new project deep within an existing git repo, e.g., cargo new deep/path/to/project, a new git repo will be initialized despite the project being inside an already existing git repo.

Steps

# create in project at root of git repo
cd /repo
git init # creates /repo/.git
cargo new foo # no git repo created inside /repo/foo

# create project in subdir of git repo
cd /repo2
git init # creates /repo2/.git
cargo new foo/bar/baz # initializes new git repo at /repo2/foo/bar/baz/.git

Possible Solution(s)

If this behavior is intended, perhaps doc update will be enough?

Notes

No response

Version

cargo 1.68.2 (6feb7c9cf 2023-03-26)

[hi-rustin]

Duplicate of #10981

It is similar to this issue.

[weihanglo]

Thanks for the report. As @hi-rustin mentioned this is somewhat a duplicate. Let's track the issue there :)