Download with symlinks generates invalid file

[duhow]

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System Information

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os_name	Linux
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config_dir	/config

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Recorder

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Describe the issue

When downloading a integration repository non-zipped from GitHub, if the repository contains a symlinked file, HACS downloads it as text.

Example:

• en.json -> ../strings.json
• File en.json contains the literal text ../strings.json, instead of being a symlink file.

Reproduction steps

• Download a custom_component which contains a symlink file
• The file is no longer a symlink

Debug logs

N/A

Diagnostics dump

No response

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[ludeeus]

This is correct, HACS uses the github API. For symlinks, you need to use git CLI.