Symlink on GitHub

Question

I have created a repo on GitHub and push an IOS framework (which use some symlink) into it.

Git seem to destroy/refactor symlinks accordings to some discussions I found.

But I found this repo that have symlink: https://github.com/appfeel/google-iosadmobads/tree/master/src/ios/GoogleMobileAds.framework

Here is a screenshot of my repo:

You can see "Headers" file, which is a symlink look like a basic file...

But on the other repo I have:

The icon really look like a symlink :)

My question(s) is/are: How can I do this? Git option? Commit on UNIX OS? (I'm on Windows right now)

edi9999 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-18 09:25:26Z

From git help config

core.symlinks If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. git-update-index(1) and git-add(1) will not change the recorded type to regular file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support symbolic links.

The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository is created.

This means that to maintain windows compatibility, you can set this option to false so that your symlinks are stored as plain text files, such as the one on the github repository.

Thks for your reply. According to my local git config file symlink is already set to false. [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = false bare = false logallrefupdates = true symlinks = false ignorecase = true hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly

CyrilleGuimezanes · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-18 16:53:14Z

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I finally used a Ubuntu Virtual Machine to create Symlinks and it works :)

answered Sep 18, 2015 at 16:53

CyrilleGuimezanes

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