title: Github releases: how to include symlink contents into source code?
body: <p>We are using Github <code>releases</code> tool for our projects.</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SRair.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SRair.png" alt="Github releases assets" /></a></p>
  <p>It works quite well. Github automatically generates an archive of the source files. However, we have <code>windows symlinks</code> to other folders in the source files.</p>
  <p>We use shared source code between projects for some parts of the program. These are cloned once per computer and each repository that needs it links to these repositories using symlinks.</p>
  <p>Is there a way to force github including the symlinks content not as a reference but as a deep copy in the <code>Source code</code> archive?</p>
  <p>We want to make sure we can compile the program again and obtain the same binary output in a few years, even if the common code base has evolved in the meantime.</p>