symlinks in repo (ddmd->src) breaks Dropbox (or google drive)

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d]

actually here's the article explaning the symlink in dropbox disaster:
http://www.paulingraham.com/dropbox-and-symlinks.html



On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Timothee Cour <thelastmammoth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/801742d93ecb6c929409a19c024dd8
> 7ca25330a3 introduced a symlink dmd repo; if a user clones it inside a
> Dropbox (or google drive) and syncs his dropbox to another machine, it will
> create havoc:
>
> * google drive doesn't support symlinks at all
> * dropbox supports it in a horrible way, resolving symlinks, leading to
> duplicating the folder that's being symlinked on the 2nd machine:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/452714/is-dropbox-
> going-to-always-resolve-my-symlinks,
>
>
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