smartlink

Documentation

Index

• func Link(src, dest string) error
• func LinkContents(src, dest string) error
• func UnlinkContents(src, dest string) error

Functions

func Link

func Link(src, dest string) error

Link creates a link from src to target. MS decided to support Symlinks but only if you opt into developer mode (go figure), which we cannot reasonably force on our users. So on Windows we will instead create dirs and hardlinks.

func LinkContents

func LinkContents(src, dest string) error

LinkContents will link the contents of src to desc

func UnlinkContents

func UnlinkContents(src, dest string) error

UnlinkContents will unlink the contents of src to dest if the links exist WARNING: on windows smartlinks are hard links, and relating hard links back to their source is non-trivial, so instead we just delete the target path. If the user modified the target in any way their changes will be lost.