Insight: symlinks should really be abused!

Let’s say you’re in the same position as me, working within a large codebase that requires focus over multiple folders even for working with just one project. Perhaps you need to add logic, content, conditions, markup and css. These areas should all be separated, so naturally you’ll be clicking/cd-ing a lot… you see where this is going, right?

Make a temporary, meaningless folder named YourProject2010 and start pulling symlinks into it so you’ll never have to leave home again :) That would mean something like this:

cd /var/www/your-dev/YourProject2010
ln -s /var/www/your-dev/css/campaign_file.css .
ln -s /var/www/your-dev/js/campaign_file.js .
ln -s /var/www/your-dev/lib/campaign_file.php .

When you’re all done with the project, merging your branch with master and

rm -r /var/www/your-dev/YourProject2010

are the only two steps you need wipe out your traces and tell your boss that “it was a hard project to pull off because of its scope”.