uschindler edited a comment on pull request #631: URL: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/631#issuecomment-1039190301
> These are supposed to be fine on Windows, though. Unfortunately no, to use symlinks in Windows 10, you need multiple stuff and it is not working out of box: - You need to enable Windows 10 developer mode. If you do this, also users are allowed to create symlinks, otherwise you need admin privileges. On the Jnekins server this is by default the case, this is why it works there. - When checking out the repository you have to pass command line parameters to "enable symlinks". Usual tools like TortoiseGit (I use that), do not do this. This leads to symlinks checked out as plain text files with the target path as file contents. A global config property does not work, as GIT requires the property to be passed always and explicit when checking out (so GUI users like I am are out). Once you have the checkout, it works somehow. But if you have no developer mode or admin access (and klick on the UAC prompt) it breaks again. So this is a pain! Microsoft misdesigned symlinks, because they were afraid of bad things done with them (like you place a symlink there pointing to temp directory with some häckidihickhack malware and nowbody would notice). So without developer mode and some extra settings and also extra command line options (because Git people did not want the git client to be forcefully executed with admin rights, so you need to opt-in) your hopeless. My proposal would be to have: - a simple list of files in the example directories - possibly a a "gitignore *.java" file in each - a Gradle build step that reads the file and copies the files over to the examples directory. The good thing with that: symlinks get quickly out of sync because nothing checks that they are still valid. The gradle task would fail if the example file was moved away and symlink not updated. Ideally the copied files would be below some build/examplefiles folder (if thats pssible the gitignore would not be needed)! Uwe -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
