Recreate README.md as a non-symlink

[saschanaz]

Q: You just deleted and recreated it? In a single commit?! What the heck?

Ah yeah, I was just pinged by my one of my colleagues who had a problem when checking out this repository and found there's a weirdness. That the main README.md and the scraper/README.md are both symlinks! Except the latter is not really supposed to be a symlink but a file. Still you can see it still being a symlink from GitHub:

My PR fixes it:

But what about the git blame?

Only my commit will appear for every line, but not sure there's a better way. There should be, I'm just not aware of it.

So what did you actually do?

I deleted the file, committed it, recreated one, committed it again, and squashed those two commits. Git shows "typechange" when you run git commit --amend on top of my commit:

Recreate README.md (typechange in git)

# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
#
# Date:      Tue Apr 29 14:28:18 2025 +0200
#
# On branch readme-symlink2
# Your branch is up to date with 'origin/readme-symlink2'.
#
# Changes to be committed:
#	typechange: scraper/README.md
#

But git still thinks I created every line when you run git blame. Huh.

[fiji-flo]

This solves the issue that on macOS you get:

git clone [email protected]:rust-scraper/scraper.git
Cloning into 'scraper'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1748, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (531/531), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (186/186), done.
remote: Total 1748 (delta 442), reused 352 (delta 344), pack-reused 1217 (from 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (1748/1748), 405.25 KiB | 1.01 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (982/982), done.
error: unable to create symlink scraper/README.md: File name too long
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'