Link Rule

Rule

TIP

$persist_dir is the Scoop persistence directory.

• If there is $home, replace it with $persist_dir.
• Otherwise, replace the drive letter with $persist_dir.

Example

• Microsoft.VisualStudioCode stores its data in $env:AppData\Code and $home\.vscode
• $env:AppData = $home\AppData\Roaming
• $persist_dir = D:\scoop\persist\Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
• It will link:
  • $home\AppData\Roaming\Code => $persist_dir\AppData\Roaming\Code
  • $home\.vscode => $persist_dir\.vscode

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• It directly uses the following way to define the link in abyss:

  "link": [
      "$env:AppData\\Code",
      "$home\\.vscode"
  ],

• abyss only needs you to specify the data directories, and it does not need to specify the target directory.
• This ensures the uniformity of data persistence, and also lowers the risk of errors and cognitive load in manually defining directory structures.