Markus KARG created MDEP-437:
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Summary: Create symbolic links instead of physical copies
Key: MDEP-437
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/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
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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