StageBase::stageDirectoryExists() breaks on PreCreate

@phenaproxima How did you find this? How did this bug manifest?

(Tagging for this, but based on the current summary, this is already actionable, so keeping .)

I happened to stumble upon the place where @phenaproxima discovered this.

This is a hard blocker for 📌 Add a validator to check that PHP-TUF's Composer integration is present and configured correctly Fixed , so matching priority and tags.

Self-assigning to fix.

How did you find this? How did this bug manifest?

This manifested while writing a test for the PHP-TUF validator -- I need to get the allow-plugins config value for the stage directory, if it exists. So used stageDirectoryExists() -- only to discover that it is lying to me during pre-create, telling me that the stage directory exists when it doesn't.

I've now fixed this with a test, and confirmed that the test fails if I revert the fix.

I confirmed that test fails without the fix. Looks good.

👍 Thanks for the context in #7! 😊 That addresses , and the issue is so short anyway, so untagging.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.