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2049 points bpierre | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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abritishguy ◴[30 Mar 16 17:22 UTC] No.11391061[source]▶
I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.
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sabarn01 ◴[30 Mar 16 17:25 UTC] No.11391085[source]▶
Windows does have symlinks and hardlinks that work very similarly but are only exposed via a built in cmd command. That said no one uses them.
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1. wvenable ◴[30 Mar 16 17:28 UTC] No.11391119[source]▶
I use them. They're also heavily used by the OS itself -- the entire WinSxS folder structure is a whole lot of symlinks.
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2. Dylan16807 ◴[30 Mar 16 18:08 UTC] No.11391566[source]▶
It is? I thought it was hard links.
3. stcredzero ◴[30 Mar 16 19:25 UTC] No.11392195[source]▶
My work uses symlinks to avoid re-downloading 3rd party libraries in different Perforce branches.