In order to make readTree import symlinked directories I've been looking
into how to detect if a symlink points to a directory (since this would
allow us to use symlinks for //nix/sparseTree). I've found a hack for
this:
symlinkPointsToDir = path: isSymlink path &&
builtins.pathExists (toString path + "/.")
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to distinguish whether the
symlink target does not exist or is a regular file.
Since it's possible, I thought might as well add this to
`pathType`. To make returning the extra information workable, I've
elected to use the attribute set layout used by `//nix/tag`. This
doesn't require us to depend anything (as opposed to yants), but gives
us pattern matching (via `nix.tag.match`) and also quite idiomatic
checking of pathTypes:
pathType ./foo ? file
(pathType ./foo).symlink or null == "symlink-directory"
Nonexistent paths are encoded like this:
pathType ./foo ? missing
Of course we can't use this in readTree (since it must be zero
dependency), but we can easily inline this hack at some point.
Change-Id: I15b64a1ea69953c95dc3239ef5860623652b3089
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/3535
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
