Copied a recording out to a scratch directory to try the conversion without touching the repo:
sdods record convert ~/scratch/checkout.spec.ts✖ CONFIG_INVALID: Cannot tell which project ~/scratch/checkout.spec.ts belongs to.
hint: Pass -p <slug>, or keep recordings under projects/<slug>/recorded/.There is one project in the whole workspace. Why does it not just pick it?
Accepted answer
Because convert does not go through the project picker at all — it reads the slug out of the path. The rule is exactly "is there a projects/<slug>/ segment in what you passed", and a scratch directory has none. Having one project in the registry is the shortcut that makes -p optional for sdods record and sdods run; it does not apply here.
Either of these works:
sdods record convert ~/scratch/checkout.spec.ts -p demo-shop
sdods record convert projects/demo-shop/recorded/checkout.spec.tsThe second is what you want regardless. Conversion produces a proposal, not a write, so pointing it at the real path is not the destructive thing the copy was protecting you from.
Its neighbour is Spec not found: <spec> when the path does not exist. Both exit 2, so a script cannot tell them apart by exit code — only by the message.
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