Copy-webpack-plugin: Add a copy option to copy relative symbolic links without resolving.

[PabloK]

• Operating System: N/A
• Node Version: N/A
• NPM Version: N/A
• webpack Version: 4
• copy-webpack-plugin Version: 5.0.3

Feature Proposal

Add an option to copy-webpack-plugin to copy relative symbolic links without resolving the underlying structure.

Feature Use Case

An example repo can be found here: https://github.com/PabloK/copy-webpack-381

[marco-a]

Yes, please!

[alexander-akait]

PR welcome

[PabloK]

I have started a PR on this so far only a failing test. It can be found here. Would be glad to have some review of the test as I'm new to the testing style you use.

https://github.com/PabloK/copy-webpack-plugin

[alexander-akait]

@PabloK please send a PR and i will review and say what is wrong

[marco-a]

What's "confusing" the task seems pretty clear to me?

[alexander-akait]

My mistake

[iEchoic]

👍 just wanted to mention that this is important when using libraries like sharp, which resolve dependencies with local symlinks.

[alexander-akait]

PR welcome

[alexander-akait]

I think we don't need this option, because https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob#followsymboliclinks

[alexander-akait]

I will add tests and docs

[alexander-akait]

Bug on fast-glob side

[alexander-akait]

Found other bugs on our side, but we need to solve https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob/issues/300 firstly