From f277c9f1aeaef317957520bf8321070e7889a7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ted Blackman <ted@tlon.io>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:19:16 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] pkg/symbolic-merge.sh from @Fang-

---
 pkg/symbolic-merge.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 pkg/symbolic-merge.sh

diff --git a/pkg/symbolic-merge.sh b/pkg/symbolic-merge.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..aced17a00d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/symbolic-merge.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# call from within pkg/ as ./symbolic-merge.sh source-pkg target-pkg
+
+function link() { # source desk, target desk, filepath
+  local src=${3:2}; # strip leading ./
+  local pax=$src;
+  local rel=$1;
+  while [[ "." != $(dirname "$pax") ]]; do
+    pax=$(dirname "$pax");
+    rel="../$rel";
+  done;
+  ln -sf "../$rel/$src" "../$2/$src"; 
+}
+
+# mirror directory structure
+cd $1;
+find . -type d -exec mkdir -p ../$2/{} \;
+
+# symlink all files, overwriting existing ones
+export -f link
+find . -type f \
+       -not -name '*.bill' \
+       -not -name '*.kelvin' \
+       -exec bash -c "link $1 $2 {}" \;
+