start [options] <PATH> [template] … Starts a new Ionic project in the specified PATH
[options] any flags for the command
<PATH> directory for the new project
[template] Starter templates can either come from a named template,
…so I went with ;
C:>ionic start --v1 ion1 sidemenu
…expecting to get a new directory c:\ion1 and in that directory get a “sidemenu” template based ionic 1 project …
What I saw on screen was ;
Creating an Ionic app in C:\sidemenu based on the tabs template.
Cheers ! Upgraded to 2.2.3 and now works as expected.
(obviously a bug in 2.2.1 - should have reported unknown flag or ignored it and gone on to apply remaining args as documented instead of ignoring the project name and taking the template as the project)
That was actually my honest reaction to that. I don’t think anybody thought of that, so reporting an issue would be the right thing to do to bring it to the attention of the CLI developers.