Clarified an error message on failure to find 'migrations' path.

Error message for "path doesn't exist" when loading up script environment
now displays the absolute path.  Pull request courtesy Rowan Hart.

Fixes: #663
Closes: #664
Pull-request: https://github.com/sqlalchemy/alembic/pull/664
Pull-request-sha: 29ff74c2678ab73f6c5a646477c840f5cdded234

Change-Id: Ibaa8ad444560e481ba96e0c0e3ba31ec7c7c1385

diff --git a/alembic/script/base.py b/alembic/script/base.py
index 81bded4741e8a844dc5ec42c4e634f1e9a80b117..fea9e879f2ad459cd8ac8d9253108f10c8c27095 100644 (file)
--- a/alembic/script/base.py
+++ b/alembic/script/base.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class ScriptDirectory(object):
             raise util.CommandError(
                 "Path doesn't exist: %r.  Please use "
                 "the 'init' command to create a new "
-                "scripts folder." % dir
+                "scripts folder." % os.path.abspath(dir)
             )
 
     @property

diff --git a/docs/build/unreleased/663.rst b/docs/build/unreleased/663.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..9c4cb2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/build/unreleased/663.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+.. change::
+    :tags: bug, environment
+    :tickets: 663
+
+    Error message for "path doesn't exist" when loading up script environment
+    now displays the absolute path.  Pull request courtesy Rowan Hart.