Always follow symlinks (#1883)

components/content/src/utils.rs

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pub fn has_anchor(headings: &[Heading], anchor: &str) -> bool {
 pub fn find_related_assets(path: &Path, config: &Config, recursive: bool) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
     let mut assets = vec![];
 
-    let mut builder = WalkDir::new(path);
+    let mut builder = WalkDir::new(path).follow_links(true);
     if !recursive {
         builder = builder.max_depth(1);
     }

components/site/src/lib.rs

@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ impl Site {
         // not the most elegant loop, but this is necessary to use skip_current_dir
         // which we can only decide to use after we've deserialised the section
         // so it's kinda necessecary
-        let mut dir_walker = WalkDir::new(format!("{}/{}", base_path, "content/")).into_iter();
+        let mut dir_walker =
+            WalkDir::new(format!("{}/{}", base_path, "content/")).follow_links(true).into_iter();
         let mut allowed_index_filenames: Vec<_> = self
             .config
             .other_languages()
@@ -220,6 +221,7 @@ impl Site {
                 // index files for all languages and process them simultaniously
                 // before any of the pages
                 let index_files = WalkDir::new(&path)
+                    .follow_links(true)
                     .max_depth(1)
                     .into_iter()
                     .filter_map(|e| match e {

components/utils/src/fs.rs

@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ pub fn copy_file_if_needed(src: &Path, dest: &Path, hard_link: bool) -> Result<(
 }
 
 pub fn copy_directory(src: &Path, dest: &Path, hard_link: bool) -> Result<()> {
-    for entry in WalkDir::new(src).into_iter().filter_map(std::result::Result::ok) {
+    for entry in
+        WalkDir::new(src).follow_links(true).into_iter().filter_map(std::result::Result::ok)
+    {
         let relative_path = entry.path().strip_prefix(src).unwrap();
         let target_path = dest.join(relative_path);