Question

I’m using git to test out a dojo widget I’m developing. I am developing this with someone on a *nix machine and I’m running into issues with how everything is put together.

dojo is organized by a folder convention and git wants everything to be inside a single folder. The other coder on *nix is using symlinks to place the files where they need to be within the dojo folder structure but creating shortcuts to these files on windows, which i see as being the windows equivalent, causes IIS to redirect to the shortcut origin location breaking all of the relative paths within the file. Is there a more proper way to do this since coping pasting the files where they need to be from the git repository is a PITA. Is there a better way to do this.

Answer 1

You could try using actual symbolic or hard links in Windows, it might give you better luck.

Depending on OS, you may already have this functionality available (e.g. the mklink command in Windows 7 and I believe Vista as well); in Windows XP there is a junction command available as a powertoy (but junctions apply only to directories): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768

There are also a few shell extensions that enable access to symlink/junction functionality as right-click menu items in explorer:

• http://elsdoerfer.name/ntfslink (I use this regularly in XP)
• http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html (I’ve used this with success in Win7)