as part of a migration I relocated a lot of files from directory old to directory new 

      in order to retain backwards compatability I added a symlink from directory old to new

      all is fine at the git level and github shows the symlink in its UI.

      However when using `readTrusted` step from a pipeline that is still going via the symlink (old/foo) then the step errors with a file not found.

      the code should traverse symlinks within the repository.

      java.io.FileNotFoundException: old/foo.yaml
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.github_branch_source.GitHubSCMFile.content(GitHubSCMFile.java:187)
      	at jenkins.scm.api.SCMFile.contentAsString(SCMFile.java:335)
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.multibranch.ReadTrustedStep$Execution.run(ReadTrustedStep.java:185)
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.multibranch.ReadTrustedStep$Execution.run(ReadTrustedStep.java:82)
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution$1$1.call(AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
      	at hudson.security.ACL.impersonate(ACL.java:367)
      	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution$1.run(AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:44)
      	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
      	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
      	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
      	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
      

          [JENKINS-62922] support directory symlinks

          James Nord added a comment -

          NB: as a workaround instead of symlink the directory symlinking each individual file works.

          https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/issues/875

          James Nord added a comment - NB: as a workaround instead of symlink the directory symlinking each individual file works. https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/issues/875

          Liam Newman added a comment -

          A significant part of the issue here is the GitHub REST API not making this scenario easy in the case of directory symlinks.
          As noted, file symlinks work without problem. https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/issues/875 discusses possible ways to do directory symlinks, but they involve additional api calls.

          Liam Newman added a comment - A significant part of the issue here is the GitHub REST API not making this scenario easy in the case of directory symlinks. As noted, file symlinks work without problem. https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/issues/875 discusses possible ways to do directory symlinks, but they involve additional api calls.

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