extract: shall borg warn if cwd is not empty?
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Description
Just read an old story on reddit, where somebody damaged their home directory by running:
```
borg extract REPO::archive
```
Well, that is designed to extract the archive contents to `.`, which usually should be a new/empty directory, just made for extraction purposes.
In that case, it was their normal home directory, so the archived files overwrote the current files - likely the archive was created using: `borg create REPO::archive .`
Shall borg extract warn and ask for confirmation if the cwd is not empty?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the implementation of the `borg extract` command and inspect existing confirmation behavior and related tests. Determine how a non-empty current directory is detected and how a confirmation prompt should behave; done means extraction warns before proceeding and the behavior is covered by tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100