Forum: Ruby-core FileUtils#ln_r

Issue #4189 has been updated by zzak (Zachary Scott).

File fileutils_ln_r.patch added
Description updated

Adding Thomas' patch from github.
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Feature #4189: FileUtils#ln_r
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4189#change-33064

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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