improved handling of user_mods_dir

E3SM-Project · Sep 2, 2016 · 75309c3 · 75309c3
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commit 75309c3
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/scripts/create_newcase b/scripts/create_newcase
@@ -170,10 +170,10 @@ def _main_func():
 
         # Write out the case files
         case.flush(flushall=True)
-        if user_mods_dir is not None and user_mods_dir.startswith(".."):
-            user_mods_dir = os.path.abspath(user_mods_dir)
-
-        case.apply_user_mods(user_mods_dir)
+        if user_mods_dir is not None:
+            if os.path.isdir(user_mods_dir):
+                user_mods_dir = os.path.abspath(user_mods_dir)
+            case.apply_user_mods(user_mods_dir)
 
     # Copy env_case.xml into LockedFiles
     copyfile(os.path.join(caseroot,"env_case.xml"),