cannot create component in home directory

[girishramnani]

As there is a preference file present in the home directory with the name path as the local config file .odo/config.yaml, people cannot create components in their home directory ( which could be something someone does )

[girishramnani]

we can consider changing the name of the preference file to .odo/preference.yaml instead to make sure people can create components in home directories

[cdrage]

👍 on this, this would be related to the previous issue I had: #1729

👍 on renaming it to preference.yaml

[amitkrout]

@girishramnani Can you please assign label to it

[girishramnani]

@jorgemoralespou could you please provide you suggestion on these two questions -
1 - renaming the global preference to preference.yaml or preferences.yaml
2 - do we provide automatic migration for users i.e. rename the ~/.odo/config.yaml to the new file?

[jorgemoralespou]

@girishramnani I would go ahead, although bc I honestly hope no one does that, but makes sense.
For question #2 I would just add it to the release notes as I also don't think many people is yet using the preferences.