Symbolic links

Isaac Jurado diptongo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 06:58:03 CST 2011


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM, qewr <god6or at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Several projects use common files, which are placed at separate location
> and reflected into project(s) directory as symbolic links. One solution I
> use is to temporarily replace sym.links with real files before commiting and
> pushing to GC server, then change back to sym.links.

The Dactyl developers have to deal with a similar issue.  Apparently,
the problem with symlinks is that are not completely portable across
Unix/Windows:

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/coding

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Isaac Jurado

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