Deploy a symbolic link target

[jokin]

currently, if I create a symbolic link to my build directory, "firebase deploy" does not found the directory.
Error: Specified public directory does not exist, can't deploy hosting

But if I launch the site with "firebase serve" it actually works fine.

Thanks

[cbraynor]

The error deploying was reported in #22 and is specifically an issue with our fstream dependency. Until that issue is resolved, there's not much we can do. I don't think it makes sense to prohibit firebase serve from working if you're using symbolic links, and that's the only thing I can think that would make the behavior consistent.

[gilbert]

The fix PR has been sitting for 6 years. Surely you can fork fstream to resolve the issue?

[bkendall]

We're not going to be forking fstream.

I was able to make a symlink to my public directory (symlink -> public) and change my firebase.json directory to be symlink and deploy successfully. If you're having trouble with this @gilbert , could you open a new issue with reproduction steps so we can take a closer look? Thanks.