symlink tutorial

How you use your Git Folders (if you are using a Git Client, like SmartGit & GitKraken etc) in your WoW installation.

I keep this clean and simple and i assume you already use Git and know where your Git folders and World of Warcraft \ retail \ Interface \ AddOn folder are. I will take ElvUI as an example.

The big advantage is, that you don't need to copy your folders now everytime you pull the new changes.

Delete your existing "ElvUI" & "ElvUI_OptionsUI" folders from your World of Warcraft folder.
Open the windows command prompt as admin. Type in the windows search: CMD

In the Command Prompt now must use the "mklink /D" command (Symlink)
In the first part, we need to tell the link where you want your folder, so it should be the World of Warcraft \ retail \ Interface \ AddOn folder:

After this, we must tell the link, the path to our existing git folder:

The whole link now should looks like this:

If you hit enter, it will create a new folder called "ElvUI" in your World of Warcraft \ retail \ Interface \ AddOn folder and use the existing git folder

Repeat the steps with the folder "ElvUI_OptionsUI":