angular / angular/angular-cli

Support relative pathing for `ng generate` statements

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area: @schematics/angular feature feature: insufficient votes
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Description

### Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an `x`)
```
- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [x] feature request
```

### Versions.
```@angular/cli: 1.0.4
node: 6.10.2
os: linux x64
@angular/common: 4.1.3
@angular/compiler: 4.1.3
@angular/core: 4.1.3
@angular/forms: 4.1.3
@angular/http: 4.1.3
@angular/platform-browser: 4.1.3
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.1.3
@angular/router: 4.1.3
@angular/cli: 1.0.4
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.1.3
```

### Repro steps.

From project root:
```
ng g component ./src/app/components/test
```

### The log given by the failure.
```
installing component
create src/app/src/app/components/test/test.component.scss
create src/app/src/app/components/test/test.component.html
create src/app/src/app/components/test/test.component.spec.ts
create src/app/src/app/components/test/test.component.ts
```

### Desired functionality.

Doesn't create src/app under the (already existing) src/app directory.

This is a minor change, but would then allow me to use autocomplete with the generator, even if the immediate fix is to just remove 'src/app' from the file location input before processing.

### Mention any other details that might be useful.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Reproduce the issue from the project root with `ng g component ./src/app/components/test` and inspect how the Angular CLI generator resolves that relative path. Done means the generated files are placed under the existing `src/app` directory without creating a duplicated `src/app/src/app` path.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
cli, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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