Failed to initialize project in a new github repo

[jmrodri]

Can not initialize a project if LICENSE and README exist. Relates to Issue #1971

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2021/02/10 10:34:18 failed to initialize project with "go.kubebuilder.io/v3": target directory is not empty (only go.mod, go.sum, and files and directories with the prefix "." are allowed); found existing file "LICENSE"

I expected it to create the project since it's basically an empty repo. If I create a git repo in github using their UI and choose to add a license, readme and .gitignore, so I can seed a new operator project, I can't do this.

• Go to github, create a new repository
• In the *Create a new repository" screen choose the following options:
  • Add a README file
  • Add .gitignore, select .gitignore template: Go
  • Choose a license, select Apache License 2.0
• Click Create repository
• Clone new repository
• cd to new project
• kubebuilder init --domain example.com --repo github.com/USER/YOURNEWREPO
  

[jesusr@camaro dev]$ git clone git@github.com:jmrodri/fakerepo.git
Cloning into 'fakerepo'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (5/5), 4.72 KiB | 2.36 MiB/s, done.
[jesusr@camaro dev]$ cd fakerepo/
[jesusr@camaro fakerepo{main}]$ ls
LICENSE  README.md
[jesusr@camaro fakerepo{main}]$ kubebuilder init --domain zeusville.com --repo github.com/jmrodri/fakerepo
Error: failed to initialize project with "go.kubebuilder.io/v3": target directory is not empty (only go.mod, go.sum, and files and directories with the prefix "." are allowed); found existing file "LICENSE"
Usage:
  kubebuilder init [flags]

Examples:
  # Scaffold a project using the apache2 license with "The Kubernetes authors" as owners
  kubebuilder init --project-version=2 --domain example.org --license apache2 --owner "The Kubernetes authors"


Flags:
      --component-config        create a versioned ComponentConfig file, may be 'true' or 'false'
      --domain string           domain for groups (default "my.domain")
      --fetch-deps              ensure dependencies are downloaded (default true)
  -h, --help                    help for init
      --license string          license to use to boilerplate, may be one of 'apache2', 'none' (default "apache2")
      --owner string            owner to add to the copyright
      --project-name string     name of this project
      --repo string             name to use for go module (e.g., github.com/user/repo), defaults to the go package of the current working directory.
      --skip-go-version-check   if specified, skip checking the Go version

Global Flags:
      --plugins strings          plugin keys of the plugin to initialize the project with
      --project-version string   project version

2021/02/10 10:34:18 failed to initialize project with "go.kubebuilder.io/v3": target directory is not empty (only go.mod, go.sum, and files and directories with the prefix "." are allowed); found existing file "LICENSE"

Using kubebuilder from master branch.

$ kubebuilder version
Version: main.version{KubeBuilderVersion:"v3.0.0-alpha.0-78-g72f01e58", KubernetesVendor:"unknown", GitCommit:"72f01e58c677219d7af38385a1b249b496391167", BuildDate:"2021-02-10T14:10:30Z", GoOs:"linux", GoArch:"amd64"}

$ go version
go version go1.15.6 linux/amd64

/kind bug

[Adirio]

I would say that this is more of a feature request than a bug. Change it back if you don't agree.
/remove-kind bug
/kind feature

By the way, I think this would be a good idea and it can easily be merged before v3.0.0.

[camilamacedo86]

+1 for we move forward with this one.

[Adirio]

I can take it if none of you is working on it right now

[Adirio]

/assign