NVM directory already exists

[kceb]

Getting the following error on macOS but not ubuntu:

fatal: destination path '/Users/runner/.nvm' already exists and is not an empty directory.

I can rm -rf that directory before the iOS step, but was wondering why it is happening suddenly. To my knowledge, we didn't cache that directory.

[kceb]

Looks like github added nvm to it's macOS containers.

I think to resolve this, this package could check to see if an nvm install already exists.

[ljharb]

This would probably work fine if it only set $NVM_DIR if it wasn't already set?

[dcodeIO]

A while ago I changed the install directory from $HOME/.nvm to $HOME/mynvm (see). Looks a bit silly, but should work around the problem by replacing any potentially existing nvm install for the course of the workflow run.

[ljharb]

Right, but i think the ideal/goal is not to install an extra nvm/node at all - ie, to reuse the existing one.