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#341 [Feature request] Handle symbolic links.

Opened by unidual on February 20, 2021 Feature request
unidual on February 20, 2021

It would be great to be able to store symlinks (just the link, not the file or folder it points to).

By the way, when trying to add it, nothing happens:

% pijul add mysymlink
% pijul record
Nothing to record

It should be at least followed (like darcs), or properly handled if you wish not to deter some git users! And/or this restriction + alternatives should be documented, like in Darcs FAQ.

Also, at some point my directory containing the symlink purely disappeared, despite not having touched it. I’m not able to reproduce right now, I realised the fact after a ton of channel switches and some resets for good measure. (That might be a side effect of bug #338, which happened in the same repo).

unidual on February 21, 2021

at some point my directory containing the symlink purely disappeared

I guess I found what happened: bug #348.

pmeunier added tag Feature request on April 29, 2021