避免在GitHub Repo中粘贴复制代码的最佳方法是什么

Question

First off let me apologize if this is a really dumb question, I'm fairly new to GitHub having never used any form of source control before :(

I have written a Powershell function (named Output-CORE) that I use quite a lot across a few of my scripts and at the moment I am copy-pasting this into the root directory of each of the scripts that end up using this function.

This means anytime I update the Output-CORE function I have to edit every instance of it, which is getting tedious to say the least.

Is there a way I can have this function in one place in my repo and then have it symlinked or something to each of the directories?

I've done some reading but I'm not sure if symlinks would work on our infrastructure (the code is written on Windows 10 machines and the repo is cloned onto our Windows Server 2012r2 SCCM management system where it is used as the basis of packages to be deployed to user systems).

To give some clarity the structure of where Output-CORE lives in our GitHub:

company-name\\ITScripts\\Output-CORE\\Output-CORE.ps1

and when it ends up copied into various folders it may look like:

company-name\\ITScripts\\SCCM\\[script folder name]\\[dependencies folder]\\Output-CORE.ps1

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. :)

Answer 1

Managed to solve this with a tiny amount of faff. I made symlinks relative to the repo on my windows machine:

mklink /D company-name\\ITScripts\\SCCM\\[script folder name]\\Output-CORE ..\\..\\Output-CORE

which then means everything gets copied over to SCCM for distribution and I only have to edit the script in one place going forward.

You learn something new everyday :D