Add symlink_action_has_target_type#124
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The `target_type` argument for `ctx.actions.symlink` has been cherry-picked into the Bazel 8.6.0 release branch via bazelbuild/bazel#28538. Bazel 8.6.0 milestone: bazelbuild/bazel#27949 Follow-up to #124. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Fabian Meumertzheim <fabian@meumertzhe.im>
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ctx.actions.symlinkgained atarget_typeargument in Bazel 9.0.0 that allows specifying whether the symlink target is a file or directory. This is needed on Windows where junctions must be used for directories instead of file symlinks.See bazelbuild/bazel#26701