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Support package trees containing absolute symlinks #51

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aspiers opened this issue Jun 28, 2019 · 0 comments
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Support package trees containing absolute symlinks #51

aspiers opened this issue Jun 28, 2019 · 0 comments

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aspiers commented Jun 28, 2019

[This feature request was originally confused with #11 and reported there; moving here to stop the confusion.]

Example use case given by @dmarcoux is a Stow package containing dotfiles for $HOME, in which .mysql_history, .bash_history, and .less_history are symlinks to /dev/null.

Currently Stow refuses to stow these absolute symlinks:

WARNING! stowing home would cause conflicts:
  * source is an absolute symlink dotfiles/home/.bash_history => /dev/null
  * source is an absolute symlink dotfiles/home/.lesshst => /dev/null
  * source is an absolute symlink dotfiles/home/.mysql_history => /dev/null
All operations aborted.

To clarify:

They're all separate issues despite appearing similar on the surface.

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