symlink tutorial
To keep this clean and simple and I assume you already use Git and know where your Git folders
and World of Warcraft \ _retail_ \ Interface \ AddOns folder are. I will take ElvUI as an example.
The big advantage is that you don't need to copy your folders now everytime you pull the new changes.
Delete your existing ElvUI | ElvUI_Options | ElvUI_Libraries folders from your World of Warcraft folder.
Open the windows command prompt as admin. Type in the windows search: CMD
In the Command Prompt use the mklink /D command ( Symlink ) ( /D for an entire folder )
In the first part you're going to tell the link where you want your folder, so it should be
the World of Warcraft \ _retail_ \ Interface \ AddOns folder.
After this you're setting the path to your existing Git folder:
And this is how the entire link should look like:
If you hit enter it will create a new folder called "ElvUI" in your
World of Warcraft \ _retail_ \ Interface \ AddOns folder and use the existing Git folder.
Repeat all steps for the folder ElvUI_Options:
Repeat all steps for the folder ElvUI_Libraries:
