Symlink regression in v1.5.0

[bep]

See gohugoio/hugo#8920

On Linux.

/cc @pamubay

[nathany]

Thanks for the report.

@Code0x58 Are you willing to look into this?

Reference to changes made: #289

[nathany]

There appear to be quite a number of regressions in v1.5.0 in addition to this one: #393 #389.

Thinking we may need to rollback the changes for now -- so we can take our time on giving it another try.

/cc @Code0x58 @nshalman

[nshalman]

Thinking we may need to rollback the changes for now -- so we can take our time on giving it another try.

I support that.

[nathany]

v1.5.1 reverts the changes from 1.5.0, but lets leave this open to review.

[mterwill]

👋 any plans to revisit adding support for watching symlinks without following? Thanks!

[arp242]

any plans to revisit adding support for watching symlinks without following? Thanks!

This can't be easily changed without breaking compatibility. The current situation is unfortunate because the behaviour is inconsistent on different platforms, but clearly people rely on it so it can't "just" be changed. The current API also doesn't give us much room for adding options to Add() or some such, so idk...

Either way, this is a duplicate of #227, so closing it.