added option to symlink (`ln -s`)

Open cs-mshah opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

This solves #31. The advantage of having symlinks (ln -s) is that we can just reference the dataset stored at some other place and create a folder structure at any/multiple desired locations as required by some codebases. Deleting symlinks doesn't delete the original dataset.

The changes have been made to support backward compatibility of move=True and move=False along with the addition of move='symlink'. All tests have successfully passed.

Mar 08 '23 04:03 cs-mshah

This works wonderfully. Instead of cloning the entire dataset now, I just have links to the original image, which saves so much time and memory. I am very much in favor of merging this into the package.

Apr 05 '23 15:04 a1302z

hi, this option would be amazing, will it be integrated?

Dec 07 '23 08:12 catevita