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EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink

See original GitHub issue

When running yarn create modular-react-app my-app-name I am getting the following not permitted error:

This looks to be related to:

fs.copySync(
    path.join(newModularRoot, '.gitignore'),
    path.join(newModularRoot, '.eslintignore'),
);

https://github.com/jpmorganchase/modular/blob/master/packages/create-modular-react-app/src/cli.ts#L145

Should the proposed fix be:

fs.copySync(
    path.join(templatePath, '.gitignore'),
    path.join(newModularRoot, '.gitignore'),
);
fs.copySync(
    path.join(templatePath, '.eslintignore'),
    path.join(newModularRoot, '.eslintignore'),
);

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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threepointonecommented, Sep 3, 2020

the code you pointed to isn’t published yet, but it is code I changed away from a symlink to a copy, so you shouldn’t get this problem after the next publish. are you on windows by any chance?

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threepointonecommented, Sep 4, 2020

Closing pre-emptively, but please reopen if this isn’t fixed for you.

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