How to symlink python in Homebrew?
Did you try brew link –overwrite python?
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Check if a file is real or a symbolic link
private bool IsSymbolic(string path) { FileInfo pathInfo = new FileInfo(path); return pathInfo.Attributes.HasFlag(FileAttributes.ReparsePoint); }
What happens when I clone a repository with symlinks on Windows?
Since version 1.5.3 of the native Git client git clone and git init will probe the target file system for symlink support and set the local repository configuration for core.symlinks accordingly, i.e. to false for FAT or NTFS. This makes symlinks created and committed e.g. under Linux appear as plain text files that contain the … Read more
Symlinks on windows?
NTFS file system has junction points, I think you may use them instead, You can use python win32 API module for that e.g. import win32file win32file.CreateSymbolicLink(fileSrc, fileTarget, 1) If you do not want to rely on win32API module, you can always use ctypes and directly call CreateSymbolicLink win32 API e.g. import ctypes kdll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary(“kernel32.dll”) … Read more
Enable native NTFS symbolic links for Cygwin
⸻⸻⸻ Short answer ⸻⸻⸻ Define environment variable: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict As pointed out by mwm you may also have to run bash as Administrator. ⸻⸻⸻ Long answer ⸻⸻⸻ Default Cygwin symlinks are just regular files By default Cygwin creates text files as workaround for Windows symlink flaw. These files are not really symlinks. Almost all Windows programs … Read more
How can I get Git to follow symlinks?
What I did to add to get the files within a symlink into Git (I didn’t use a symlink but): sudo mount –bind SOURCEDIRECTORY TARGETDIRECTORY Do this command in the Git-managed directory. TARGETDIRECTORY has to be created before the SOURCEDIRECTORY is mounted into it. It works fine on Linux, but not on OS X! That trick … Read more
What is the difference between a symbolic link and a hard link?
Underneath the file system, files are represented by inodes. (Or is it multiple inodes? Not sure.) A file in the file system is basically a link to an inode. A hard link, then, just creates another file with a link to the same underlying inode. When you delete a file, it removes one link to … Read more
Git symbolic links in Windows
I was asking this exact same question a while back (not here, just in general), and ended up coming up with a very similar solution to OP’s proposition. I’ll post the solution I ended up using. But first I’ll provide direct answers to OP’s 3 questions: Q: “What, if any, downsides do you see to … Read more
How does Git handle symbolic links?
From linux symlink manual (assuming you are in Linux): A symbolic link is a special type of file whose contents are a string that is the pathname of another file, the file to which the link refers. (The contents of a symbolic link can be read using readlink(2).) So a symbolic link is one more … Read more
How can I symlink a file in Linux? [closed]
To create a new symlink (will fail if symlink exists already): ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink To create or update a symlink: ln -sf /path/to/file /path/to/symlink