Ability to match glob symlink behavior

[benmccann]

I've been trying to switch @vercel/nft over to tinyglobby from glob. There's one failing test and I'm pretty sure it's because of the symlink behavior that glob has

From https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob:

By default, a ** in a pattern will follow 1 symbolic link if it is not the first item in the pattern, or none if it is the first item in the pattern, following the same behavior as Bash.

[SuperchupuDev]

at first glance i think it is unlikely this will be added, fdir doesn't give information on whether a file is a symlink and there would need to be quite a lot of manual matching done to achieve this - not to mention it's not the behavior present in globby/fast-glob iirc

[benmccann]

Perhaps it could be an option added to fdir...

[SuperchupuDev]

maybe, but even then the tinyglobby side of the implementation would likely not be straightforward to add

[benmccann]

Perhaps the fdir option could be a limit for number of symlinks to crawl. I don't think anything would have to change on the tinyglobby side then.

[SuperchupuDev]

that wouldn't just apply to ** patterns though