Tree folding and --dotfiles do not cooperate

Tree folding does not work properly when package is stowed using --dotfiles=
 and
contains dot-XXXX directory if the target already has a .XXXX directory:
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$ tree -a ..
..
=E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 .hidden
=E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 stow
    =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 pkg
        =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 dot-hidden
            =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 file

4 directories, 1 file

$ stow --dotfiles pkg
stow: ERROR: stow_contents() called with non-directory path: stow/pkg/.hidd=
en
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Verbose output:
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$ stow --dotfiles --verbose=3D3 pkg
stow dir is /home/ngenisis/target/stow
stow dir path relative to target /home/ngenisis/target is stow
cwd now /home/ngenisis/target
cwd restored to /home/ngenisis/target/stow
cwd now /home/ngenisis/target
Planning stow of package pkg...
Stowing contents of stow/pkg (cwd=3D~/target)
Stowing stow / pkg / .hidden
Stowing contents of stow/pkg/.hidden (cwd=3D~/target)
stow: ERROR: stow_contents() called with non-directory path: stow/pkg/.hidd=
en
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Version and system information:
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$ stow --version
stow (GNU Stow) version 2.3.1

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for
x86_64-linux-thread-multi

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$ uname -a
Linux thinkpad 5.2.13-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 6 17:52:33
UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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