Latest folder is a copy on Windows
marcelais opened this issue · 2 comments
marcelais commented
The installer creates a "latest" folder which corresponds to the most recent version of the auth tool. On windows, this folder is a complete copy rather than a link.
While making a symbolic link requires administrator permission, creating a directory junction (mklink /j latest v0.2.0) does not and can be used here to avoid having a second copy of the tool.
kyle-rader commented
@marcelais that is fantastic to discover!
reillysiemens commented
This will be so much better than copying the whole directory. Thanks for pointing this out, @marcelais!
mklink seems to be a cmd.exe built-in, but we should be able to make directory junctions in PowerShell with
New-Item -Path "C:\Absolute\path\to\latest" -Target "C:\Absolute\path\to\version" -ItemType Junction