Dereference symlinks when creating tar balls
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Description
Hello!
Say we have a folder a which contains symlinks to files in folder b, and we want to cache folder a, but not folder b, except that the symbolically linked files (and not the symlinks as such) should be cached as well.
Now, tar, which I see is used by the cache action, offers the flag --dereference/-h, which does exactly what we want. Could you please consider adding an option/input to the cache action that sets this flag when running tar to build the cache?
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Research direction
Start by locating where the cache action invokes tar to build archives and how action inputs are defined and passed through. Check how the requested dereference option should be exposed, then verify that caching a directory stores linked files rather than symlinks while excluding the otherwise uncached target directory.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100