{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92","id":29638003,"number":92,"title":"Configurable symlink syncing","user":{"login":"iranzo","id":312463,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/312463?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo","html_url":"https://github.com/iranzo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iranzo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/labels/wontfix","name":"wontfix","color":"ffffff"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":43,"created_at":"2014-03-18T11:37:45Z","updated_at":"2015-02-16T16:27:17Z","closed_at":"2014-07-26T23:41:57Z","body":"According to documentation:\r\n* Synchronizing multiple unrelated directory trees by following symlinks directly below the repository level.\r\n\r\nThis should be a bug instead of a feature, as it breaks, for example, references to other folders for completeness and instead walks trough them.\r\n\r\nI've seen this discussion with other tools ande more or less all of them just copy the symlink instead of following it, and instead, suggest to use different folder pairs for that.\r\n\r\nCould a configurable option be put in place to \"FollowSymlinks\" or to not follow them and just copy the symlink instead?\r\n\r\nThanks"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/comments/74534429","html_url":"https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92#issuecomment-74534429","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syncthing/syncthing/issues/92","id":74534429,"user":{"login":"nille02","id":4272018,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4272018?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02","html_url":"https://github.com/nille02","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nille02/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-16T16:27:17Z","updated_at":"2015-02-16T16:27:17Z","body":"Why should they not has a comparable concept? Both come to the same result. \r\n\r\nIgnoring Symlinks is also not a solution. That would exclude many Files. \r\n\r\nStart Syncthing as Admin would not a problem, but on the other Machines there comes a error: puller: final: creating symlink: invalid argument\r\n"}}