Add support to symlinks (multi-root workspace)

[pm-ur]

Type: Bug

I'm using VS code on a Windows 11 host and opening a remote workspace (in Debian 11 on a docker container in WSL2). It's a multi-project workspace, where each project folder is actually a symlink. I created a .jenkins file in the first project folder of my workspace and it seems to work fine. However, I keep getting the error message "Error while retrieving Jenkins settings" periodically. After further testing, I found out that the extension isn't able to find the .jenkins file from other folders in my workspace and only in the first folder of the workspace.

Extension version: 4.4.1
VS Code version: Code 1.73.1 (6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b, 2022-11-09T04:27:29.066Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621
Modes:
Sandboxed: No
Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.15.79.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

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[pm-ur]

[alefragnani]

Hi @pm-energid ,

I suppose that message is displayed because you are using symlink, as multi-root workspaces should works just fine.

I'm not a fan of symlinks (but I know some people love it), and I never tested the extension against it. I had to change another extension to support it couple of months ago and I remember some file operations needs special attention. Maybe that's the case.

Hope this helps

[pm-ur]

I agree... That may very well be the case. Using symlinks for my project repositories saves me a lot of disk space. I work with multiple inter-dependent repositories and on different branches for different projects. Many of the projects do share the same branches too. So, I setup my projects via git workdirs and symlinks to these workdirs.