From: "reset (Jamie Winsor)" <jamie@...>
Date: 2012-06-24T07:00:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:45813] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4189] FileUtils#ln_r


Issue #4189 has been updated by reset (Jamie Winsor).


This ticket hasn't seen action in a year, but I wanted to chime in and +1 the feature.

Having a convenience function to recursively create hard links based on a source directory is a rare need, but a need, nonetheless. I think FileUtils is a fine place for it when compared to the other choices of where to place it in Ruby core.
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Feature #4189: FileUtils#ln_r
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4189#change-27389

Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: lib
Target version: 


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 I wrote a method for FileUtils to do recursive hard linking. It works just like cp_r but links instead of copies.
 
 The code can be found along with the pull request I made to ruby/ruby on Github:
 
   http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4#issuecomment-631067
 
 It's a pretty handy method for "staging" read-only files. For example I've used it to stage test fixture files in a tmp testing location and I've used it collect together a set of files for packaging into a tarball.
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