Alex Prokofiev created GOBBLIN-1021:
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Summary: Symbolic links in Gobblin Git repo do not work on Windows
by default
Key: GOBBLIN-1021
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOBBLIN-1021
Project: Apache Gobblin
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.15.0
Reporter: Alex Prokofiev
Gobblin repo has symbolic links in it, which is somewhat unusual.
In Git for Windows, by default, those links will be replaced by text files that
contain paths to the real files. After that, the Gobblin build will fail with
obscure error like this:
{noformat}
unexpected token: .. @ line 1, column 1. ../../xxx.gradle
{noformat}
It's possible to create symbolic links in Windows as well, but that requires a
special git config file and running the command under elevated admin account -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41994595/error-while-importing-gobblin-gradle-project-into-ide
The ask here is to either document that for Windows users, or avoid using
symbolic links all together.
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