Symlinker on sierra install#

All directory hard links are converted to symbolic links or aliases when you convert from HFS+ to APFS volume formats on macOS.įollow for future alternatives. The desire for this arose when I began using TimeMachine: absolute symbolic links on the backup drive pointed to the current version of the file, rather than to the version on the backup drive, but dissecting a long path to create a relative symlink was tedious. To create the hard link, simply: hln source destinationĭoes Apple File System support directory hard links?ĭirectory hard links are not supported by Apple File System. symlinker creates a relative symbolic link from a file to a directory. ENOTDIR A component used as a directory in linkpath is not, in fact, a directory. ENOSPC The device containing the file has no room for the new directory entry.

ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available. It's a microscopic tool to create hard links. ENOENT ( symlinkat ()) linkpath is a relative pathname and newdirfd refers to a directory that has been deleted. Say that we have a folder on our Desktop called radfolder and inside that folder is a file called order to create a symlink that points to our radfolder, we could do that with the following command.

Symlinker on sierra install#

If you already have git and Xcode installed, install hardlink. Note that the contents can be modified by changing either the source or the destination. All programs, including git will treat the file as a regular file.

This differs from a soft (symbolic) link.

This approach might not always work, but it worked well for me so far.

Then I create a symlink from ~/application by running ln -s ~/repos/application/nf.

I add nf to my Git repository, for example, at ~/repos/application/nf.

Why not create symlinks the other way around? Meaning instead of linking from the Git repository to the application directory, just link the other way around.įor example, let’s say I am setting up an application installed in ~/application that needs a configuration file nf: I use it to include files from an Dropbox account, where a webdesigner does his/her stuff. It works fine on Linux, but not on OS X! That trick helped me with Subversion too. TARGETDIRECTORY has to be created before the SOURCEDIRECTORY is mounted into it. When I find some time, I'm planning to format an ntfs partition to mount with osxfuse and check the behaviour.What I did to add to get the files within a symlink into Git (I didn't use a symlink but): sudo mount -bind SOURCEDIRECTORY TARGETDIRECTORYĭo this command in the Git-managed directory. Renamed back and got the problem again.įurthermore, if I make a folder named 'Reconciliação' in my home disk, 'Macintosh HD', the behaviour is normal in Finder which leads me to believe the problem lies in ext4fuse, or osxfuse. Of course I renamed the folder 'Reconciliacao' and the behaviour changed to normal. If I use a terminal and do 'ls' in these subfolders, the behaviour is as expected, that is, the real content, not its parents'. Going down the tree, most of the folders with accented characters behave the same way, but not all. One of these subfolders, for instance, is called 'Reconciliação' and its content, as viewed in finder, is the content of its parent 'files', including itself 'Reconciliação'. The ones with no accented characters behave normally. Ill bet that some directory above the one you want to access doesnt have permissions to allow Apache to traverse it.

Ext4fuse mounts the disk but then, on the tree first level, I have a folder called 'files' which in turn have several subfolders amongst which, several have names containing accented characters.