This is a lightweight representation of a symbolic link as a directory entry, distinct from the file or directory that the link may point to.

Keeping symbolic links explicit prevents graph and workspace tooling from silently dereferencing paths and reading content outside the workspace under a local-looking path. The path property identifies the link entry itself, while target preserves the target spelling stored by the filesystem. That target may be relative, absolute, missing, or outside the workspace; callers that need to resolve it should do so deliberately and record any relationship separately.

The SymbolicLink type has these properties:

The SymbolicLink type is related to these types:

The SymbolicLink type is represented in:

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