Packages require the directory in the repository to be existent about dotfiles HOT 3 CLOSED

Can you post the contents of your .dotfilesrc? I agree there's a problem (you should never see a backtrace like that), but I'm not exactly clear on the steps to reproduce it.

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muelli@muelli-VirtualBox:$ mkdir Dotfiles
muelli@muelli-VirtualBox:$ (echo "[dotfiles]"; echo "packages=['ssh']") | tee .dotfilesrc
[dotfiles]
packages=['ssh']
muelli@muelli-VirtualBox:~$ dotfiles --dry-run --add /.ssh/config
Moving /home/muelli/.ssh/config => /home/muelli/Dotfiles/ssh/config
Creating symlink /home/muelli/Dotfiles/ssh/config => /home/muelli/.ssh/config
muelli@muelli-VirtualBox:$ dotfiles --add /.ssh/config
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/muelli/.local/bin/dotfiles", line 19, in
dotfiles.cli.main()
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/cli.py", line 247, in main
dispatch(dotfiles, cli_opts.action, cli_opts.force, args)
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/cli.py", line 181, in dispatch
getattr(dotfiles, action)(args)
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/core.py", line 196, in add
self._perform_action('add', files)
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/core.py", line 219, in _perform_action
getattr(dotfile, action)()
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/core.py", line 91, in add
self._move(self.name, self.target)
File "/home/muelli/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dotfiles/core.py", line 66, in _move
shutil.move(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 301, in move
copy2(src, real_dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/muelli/Dotfiles/ssh/config'
muelli@muelli-VirtualBox:$

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