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Add a --preserve-symlinks-main option #19911

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Add a --preserve-symlinks-main option which behaves like --preserve-s…
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David Goldstein committed May 7, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -217,10 +217,9 @@ are linked from more than one location in the dependency tree (Node.js would
see those as two separate modules and would attempt to load the module multiple
times, causing an exception to be thrown).

Note also that the `--preserve-symlinks` flag does not apply to the main
module - this special case helps
`node --preserve-symlinks node_module/.bin/<foo>` work. If you want the same
behavior on the main module, also use `--preserve-symlinks-main`.
The `--preserve-symlinks` flag does not apply to the main module, which allows
`node --preserve-symlinks node_module/.bin/<foo>` to work. To apply the same
behavior for the main module, also use `--preserve-symlinks-main`.

### `--preserve-symlinks-main`
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