feat: supports copy nested directories/files in symlink

src/processPattern.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export default function processPattern(globalRef, pattern) {
   const globOptions = Object.assign(
     {
       cwd: pattern.context,
+      follow: true,
     },
     pattern.globOptions || {}
   );

test/CopyPlugin.test.js

@@ -85,6 +85,20 @@ describe('apply function', () => {
       // Get a mock compiler to pass to plugin.apply
       const compiler = opts.compiler || new MockCompiler();
 
+      const isWin = process.platform === 'win32';
+
+      if (!opts.symlink || isWin) {
+        if (!opts.options) {
+          opts.options = {};
+        }
+
+        if (!opts.options.ignore) {
+          opts.options.ignore = [];
+        }
+
+        opts.options.ignore.push('symlink/**/*');
+      }
+
       new CopyPlugin(opts.patterns, opts.options).apply(compiler);
 
       // Call the registered function with a mock compilation and callback
@@ -657,6 +671,25 @@ describe('apply function', () => {
         .then(done)
         .catch(done);
     });
+
+    it('can use a glob to move a file to the root directory with symbolic link', (done) => {
+      runEmit({
+        symlink: true,
+        expectedAssetKeys: [
+          'symlink/directory-ln/file.txt',
+          'symlink/directory-ln/nested-directory/file-in-nested-directory.txt',
+          'symlink/directory/file.txt',
+          'symlink/directory/nested-directory/file-in-nested-directory.txt',
+        ],
+        patterns: [
+          {
+            from: 'symlink/**/*.txt',
+          },
+        ],
+      })
+        .then(done)
+        .catch(done);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('with file in from', () => {
@@ -1180,7 +1213,7 @@ describe('apply function', () => {
         patterns: [
           {
             from: '**/*',
-            ignore: ['file.*'],
+            ignore: ['file.*', 'file-in-nested-directory.*'],
           },
         ],
       })

test/helpers/symlink/directory-ln

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./directory/