Also inspired by #833.
ln -s is weird in that the semantics differ depending on whether it's given a relative path or an absolute path. For example:
$ touch file.txt
$ mkdir dir/
$ # Create a link, with an absolute path
$ ln -s "$PWD/file.txt" absoluteLink # ./absoluteLink is non-broken
$ mv absoluteLink dir/ # ./dir/absoluteLink is still non-broken
$ # Create a link, with a relative path
$ ln -s ./file.txt relativeLink # ./relativeLink is currently non-broken
$ mv relativeLink dir/ # But now ./dir/relativeLink is broken
I think shelljs does the right thing, but I'm not sure if our tests obviously handle this.
We should also consider making this explicit, but adding a utility function like utils.symlinkIsBroken(pathToLink).
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Also inspired by #833.
ln -s is weird in that the semantics differ depending on whether it's given a relative path or an absolute path. For example:
I think shelljs does the right thing, but I'm not sure if our tests obviously handle this.
We should also consider making this explicit, but adding a utility function like utils.symlinkIsBroken(pathToLink).