I am troubleshooting the error in the above title. I understand what is happening but while trying to trouble shoot this error, I've come across an interesting Github Issue with the solution. However, I don't understand the solution.

Here is the link [Github Capistrano Issue](https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/issues/1398)

Basically, one user reports that the way to solve this issue is to implement the following:

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> Just make sure any directory that Capistrano is going to try to symlink to doesn't exist as a physical directory. That should probably also go for any file or directory you added to the :linked\_files or :linked\_dirs config option.
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My question is simple. What does this user mean when he says to make sure the directory is not physical?