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"We couldn't initialize the sample project because this file already exists: README.md" #3240

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ZahraaHawie opened this issue Oct 4, 2022 · 4 comments
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"We couldn't initialize the sample project because this file already exists: README.md" #3240

ZahraaHawie opened this issue Oct 4, 2022 · 4 comments
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I'm working on a react app and I want to connect it to a smart contract. Upon hardhat initialization I got this error:

"We couldn't initialize the sample project because this file already exists: README.md"
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Hi @zahraha97, the project initialization doesn't overwrite any files, so that's why you are getting that message. A simple workaround is to rename the README and then delete the one created by Hardhat:

mv README.md README.md.bak
npx hardhat
rm README.md
mv README.md.bak README.md

But I think that, at least for the README, we should just not add one instead of throwing this error.

tmigone added a commit to tmigone/hardhat that referenced this issue Oct 12, 2022
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Improve project creation file management
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Closes: NomicFoundation#3200, NomicFoundation#3240
Signed-off-by: Tomás Migone <tomasmigone@gmail.com>
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+1 I got the same problem

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Fixed in #3211

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