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 <[email protected]> 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, > >
