Check for symlinked gitconfig

We don't want to edit the user's actual gitconfig, we only want to copy their setup.

If the file is symlinked, we resolve the link and copy the source file instead.

dist/index.js

@@ -4229,7 +4229,7 @@ module.exports = require("punycode");
 /***/ 215:
 /***/ (function(module) {
 
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+module.exports = {"name":"@octokit/rest","version":"16.43.1","publishConfig":{"access":"public"},"description":"GitHub REST API client for Node.js","keywords":["octokit","github","rest","api-client"],"author":"Gregor Martynus (https://github.com/gr2m)","contributors":[{"name":"Mike de Boer","email":"info@mikedeboer.nl"},{"name":"Fabian Jakobs","email":"fabian@c9.io"},{"name":"Joe Gallo","email":"joe@brassafrax.com"},{"name":"Gregor Martynus","url":"https://github.com/gr2m"}],"repository":"https://github.com/octokit/rest.js","dependencies":{"@octokit/auth-token":"^2.4.0","@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest":"^1.1.1","@octokit/plugin-request-log":"^1.0.0","@octokit/plugin-rest-endpoint-methods":"2.4.0","@octokit/request":"^5.2.0","@octokit/request-error":"^1.0.2","atob-lite":"^2.0.0","before-after-hook":"^2.0.0","btoa-lite":"^1.0.0","deprecation":"^2.0.0","lodash.get":"^4.4.2","lodash.set":"^4.3.2","lodash.uniq":"^4.5.0","octokit-pagination-methods":"^1.1.0","once":"^1.4.0","universal-user-agent":"^4.0.0"},"devDependencies":{"@gimenete/type-writer":"^0.1.3","@octokit/auth":"^1.1.1","@octokit/fixtures-server":"^5.0.6","@octokit/graphql":"^4.2.0","@types/node":"^13.1.0","bundlesize":"^0.18.0","chai":"^4.1.2","compression-webpack-plugin":"^3.1.0","cypress":"^3.0.0","glob":"^7.1.2","http-proxy-agent":"^4.0.0","lodash.camelcase":"^4.3.0","lodash.merge":"^4.6.1","lodash.upperfirst":"^4.3.1","lolex":"^5.1.2","mkdirp":"^1.0.0","mocha":"^7.0.1","mustache":"^4.0.0","nock":"^11.3.3","npm-run-all":"^4.1.2","nyc":"^15.0.0","prettier":"^1.14.2","proxy":"^1.0.0","semantic-release":"^17.0.0","sinon":"^8.0.0","sinon-chai":"^3.0.0","sort-keys":"^4.0.0","string-to-arraybuffer":"^1.0.0","string-to-jsdoc-comment":"^1.0.0","typescript":"^3.3.1","webpack":"^4.0.0","webpack-bundle-analyzer":"^3.0.0","webpack-cli":"^3.0.0"},"types":"index.d.ts","scripts":{"coverage":"nyc report --reporter=html && open coverage/index.html","lint":"prettier --check '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","lint:fix":"prettier --write '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","pretest":"npm run -s lint","test":"nyc mocha test/mocha-node-setup.js \"test/*/**/*-test.js\"","test:browser":"cypress run --browser chrome","build":"npm-run-all build:*","build:ts":"npm run -s update-endpoints:typescript","prebuild:browser":"mkdirp dist/","build:browser":"npm-run-all build:browser:*","build:browser:development":"webpack --mode development --entry . --output-library=Octokit --output=./dist/octokit-rest.js --profile --json > dist/bundle-stats.json","build:browser:production":"webpack --mode production --entry . --plugin=compression-webpack-plugin --output-library=Octokit --output-path=./dist --output-filename=octokit-rest.min.js --devtool source-map","generate-bundle-report":"webpack-bundle-analyzer dist/bundle-stats.json --mode=static --no-open --report dist/bundle-report.html","update-endpoints":"npm-run-all update-endpoints:*","update-endpoints:fetch-json":"node scripts/update-endpoints/fetch-json","update-endpoints:typescript":"node scripts/update-endpoints/typescript","prevalidate:ts":"npm run -s build:ts","validate:ts":"tsc --target es6 --noImplicitAny index.d.ts","postvalidate:ts":"tsc --noEmit --target es6 test/typescript-validate.ts","start-fixtures-server":"octokit-fixtures-server"},"license":"MIT","files":["index.js","index.d.ts","lib","plugins"],"nyc":{"ignore":["test"]},"release":{"publish":["@semantic-release/npm",{"path":"@semantic-release/github","assets":["dist/*","!dist/*.map.gz"]}]},"bundlesize":[{"path":"./dist/octokit-rest.min.js.gz","maxSize":"33 kB"}]};
 
 /***/ }),
 
@@ -6595,8 +6595,17 @@ class GitAuthHelper {
                 }
             }
             if (configExists) {
-                core.info(`Copying '${gitConfigPath}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`);
-                yield io.cp(gitConfigPath, newGitConfigPath);
+                if ((yield fs.promises.lstat(gitConfigPath)).isSymbolicLink()) {
+                    core.info(`.gitconfig file at ${gitConfigPath} is a symlink, copying the true file instead`);
+                    // get true link
+                    const symlinkFull = yield fs.promises.readlink(gitConfigPath);
+                    core.info(`Copying '${symlinkFull}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`);
+                    yield io.cp(symlinkFull, newGitConfigPath);
+                }
+                else {
+                    core.info(`Copying '${gitConfigPath}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`);
+                    yield io.cp(gitConfigPath, newGitConfigPath);
+                }
             }
             else {
                 yield fs.promises.writeFile(newGitConfigPath, '');

src/git-auth-helper.ts

@@ -104,8 +104,16 @@ class GitAuthHelper {
       }
     }
     if (configExists) {
-      core.info(`Copying '${gitConfigPath}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`)
-      await io.cp(gitConfigPath, newGitConfigPath)
+      if ((await fs.promises.lstat(gitConfigPath)).isSymbolicLink()) {
+        core.info(`.gitconfig file at ${gitConfigPath} is a symlink, copying the true file instead`)
+        // get true link
+        const symlinkFull: string = await fs.promises.readlink(gitConfigPath)
+        core.info(`Copying '${symlinkFull}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`)
+        await io.cp(symlinkFull, newGitConfigPath)
+      } else {
+        core.info(`Copying '${gitConfigPath}' to '${newGitConfigPath}'`)
+        await io.cp(gitConfigPath, newGitConfigPath)
+      }
     } else {
       await fs.promises.writeFile(newGitConfigPath, '')
     }