Deleting symlinks when run under sudo

[Matt-Deacalion]

I sometimes use sudo -E vim <file> to edit root owned files, while maintaining my editor's configuration. I noticed that with the vim-signify plugin, all of my yadm symlinks get wiped out whenever I do this. This is because it performs a yadm diff on startup, which removes symlinks when run with sudo -E.

$ ls -l ~/.vimrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 14 Dec  5 10:52 .vimrc -> .vimrc##u.matt

$ sudo -E yadm diff
<snipped>

$ ls -l ~/.vimrc
ls: cannot access '.vimrc': No such file or directory

I fixed this by running:

$ yadm config local.user $(id -un)

Just posting this in case anybody else has a similar problem. Thank you for this tool, it's brilliant.

[rasa]

@Matt-Deacalion yadm config yadm.alt-copy true would fix this issue, as well.

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