Motivation

As the documentation for the loadwallet RPC describes, the syntax is:

loadwallet "filename" ( load_on_startup )

And it further specifies:

Arguments:
1. filename (string, required) The wallet directory or .dat file.
…

What’s not clearly specified in the documentation is that you are to provide the filename relative to the wallet directory ~/.bitcoin/regtest/wallets. It would be great if the documentation were improved in that regard.

Possible solution

• Improve the documentation for loadwallet to specify that the filename should be provided as the relative path from the wallet directory.
• Add an example where a wallet is loaded from a different directory

Useful Skills

• git fundamentals

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