# Template fails with diff if dest=directory w/o trailing / - shall provide better error message

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-fails-with-diff-if-dest-directory-w-o-trailing-shall-provide-better-error-message/14722>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 7, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-fails-with-diff-if-dest-directory-w-o-trailing-shall-provide-better-error-message/14722 "2014-03-07T08:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jakub\_Holy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@Jakub\_Holy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jakub_Holy)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-fails-with-diff-if-dest-directory-w-o-trailing-shall-provide-better-error-message/14722/1 "2014-03-07T08:47:00Z")

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The following will fail in Ansible 1.5 but _only_ when run with --diff:

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**Author:** ![Jakub\_Holy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@Jakub\_Holy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jakub_Holy)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-fails-with-diff-if-dest-directory-w-o-trailing-shall-provide-better-error-message/14722/2 "2014-03-13T14:49:18Z")

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I have opened [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6469](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6469) for this