Allow quarto use to download to the current directory

[malcolmbarrett]

Description

I use quarto use to make use of my custom template, but I almost always start with an RStudio Project, not a Quarto command. Quarto then fights with me about the directory already existing, making me create a subdirectory. The default behavior would be better if, instead, you confirmed you want it in an existing directory.

[mcanouil]

Your directory needs to be empty otherwise Quarto can't know what to do with possible conflicting files.
For instance, you can have extension for projects, which creates _quarto.yml, how Quarto should know if it should just erase what's already there or not.
That's intended behaviour here.

Cc @dragonstyle

Anyhow, an issue has been opened to track this:

• Allow quarto use to download to the current directory #8595

[malcolmbarrett]

I understand the issue and that it's intentional. I'm proposing a better solution. Me confirming I want it there is a nice simple one (then, it's a me problem, not a Quarto problem), but there are other ways. If such a file is particularly concerning, Quarto can of course check for _quarto.yml and ask what to do or for confirmation to do some default behavior.

I bump into this every time. This is non-ergonomic for RStudio users because the idiomatic pattern is to start with an RStudio Project.

[mcanouil]

I perfectly understood the rational.
For instance, an RSTudio project is never empty (Rproj file/folder) which means you can't use quarto use in such setup. That's not very good.