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digitalmars.D - symlinks in repo (ddmd->src) breaks Dropbox (or google drive)

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/801742d93ecb6c929409a19c024dd87ca25330a3
introduced a symlink dmd repo; if a user clones it inside a Dropbox (or
google drive) and syncs his dropbox to another machine, it will create
havoc:

* google drive doesn't support symlinks at all
* dropbox supports it in a horrible way, resolving symlinks, leading to
duplicating the folder that's being symlinked on the 2nd machine:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/452714/is-dropbox-going-to-always-resolve-my-symlinks
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Jan 08 2017