[Users] [ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #453: Formaline deletes files if lib and src are symlinks

[Frank Loeffler]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0400, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> The overall goal of this code is to create a shadow hierarchy of the
> actual thorn with all relevant files. For this, all directories are
> created via mkdir, and all files are hardlinked. After calling "git
> add", this shadow directory is deleted again. (This is necessary
> because "git add" can't be made to follow symbolic links.)

This is what 'cp -rlL' should do, but we cannot rely on that because that
might not work on all machines?

Frank

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