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Michael Osipov closed MDEP-437.
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> Create symbolic links instead of physical copies
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> Key: MDEP-437
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-437
> Project: Maven Dependency Plugin
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: copy
> Affects Versions: 2.8
> Environment: JDK 7u51, Win 7 Pro SP1 (64 Bit)
> Reporter: Markus Karg
> Priority: Major
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> When copying lots of resources, especially huge ones (e. g. we are dealing
> with two gigabytes (!) split up into several 100 MB large binaries) it is
> tedious to wait until the copy task has performed real physical copies...
> Since JRE 7 Java (which is public for years meanwhile) can deal with symbolic
> links, it would be really cool if one could add a <symlink>true</symlink>
> configuration option, so the plugin could simply go the fast lane and use
> symbolic links instead of physical copies.
> For backwards compatibility unfortunately the default has to be "false". :-(
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