overwriting of symlinks to files outside the grunt directory fails

[gruntjs]

overwriting of symlinks to files outside the grunt directory fails

[caphun]

I have this issue too! You can overcome with --force. If overwrite=true is set the overwrite should happen regardless I think.

[mseankelly]

I'm on a Windows machine, and the following does not work:

options: {
    overwrite: true,
    force: true
}

I still get the following warning: Cannot delete files outside the current working directory. Use --force to continue.

I have the following for setting up the symlink:

sharedComponents: {
    src: '../../../../sharedcode/client/components',
    dest: 'shared-components'
}

[rfpludwick]

This is also causing a problem for me.

[liverbool]

me too.

[woutrbe]

Looks like a fix was actually merged: 21c520c

[afewyards]

You might want to publish a release after that patch... as npm is not picking it up

[pleszczynski]

Is this going to be published on npm? Last published version is from 2014, and this is rather big fix.

[steve-kasica]

@pleszczynski I just downloaded version 0.3.0 from npm and it's working for me.

[brianhelba]

To be clear, this bug has always been present when using NodeJS 5.x, and it is not fixed in the 0.3.0 release of grunt-contrib-symlink. @stvkas , I assume you were using NodeJS 4.x or earlier.

This was fixed in master over 16 months ago, from #13 , but we desperately need a new release to close this issue and #21 .

@shama This is a very useful tool, but if it's not kept updated, the user base may fork and fragment. You appear to be a maintainer on npmjs.com, are you able to push a new release? Please let me know if you require any assistance.

[shama]

Published as 1.0.0.