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Symlinks Cause an Infinite Number of Files to Be Added to CodeKit #541

Closed CWSpear closed 11 years ago

CWSpear commented 11 years ago

I have successfully be able to recreate this issue. With this file structure as a CodeKit project:

/
/style.css -> css/style.css
/css/
/css/style.css
/sass/
/sass/style.scss

where that style.css in the root is a symlink created with the command ln -s css/style.css style.css.

Every time I refresh that project, it shows a duplicate entry for /css/style.css. This seems to continue infinitely. I started getting the error that CodeKit couldn't track more than 10,000 whatever items, and I couldn't figure out why, because it shouldn't be tracking more than 150 files. I found several thousand duplicate files like this in several projects.

I've tried restarting CodeKit, unchecking the projects, but nothing short of removing the projects and re-adding them seems to do anything. And it's just a ticking time bomb before it happens again.

I'm using Version 1.5.1 (8248).

Screenshot of the project used in this example after about a half dozen refreshes:

There should only be one /css/style.css in this project.

bdkjones commented 11 years ago

Yep. For technical reasons, CodeKit does not currently support symlinks. (Not all the tools that CodeKit exposes can work with them). You'll see undefined behavior if you try to use them.

CWSpear commented 11 years ago

They couldn't at least be ignored instead of ruining the app, making it pop up so many unnecessary errors it's difficult to use without having to periodically reset projects?

daangeerdink commented 10 years ago

This is still very much an issue.