[Pull] Preserve selected symlinked directories selected with --only

[fredrikekelund]

files-pull --only=<path> now recreates <path> when it is a symlink to a directory, so a scoped pull leaves the selected plugin available at the path the user requested.

For example, a site may contain:

wp-content/plugins/akismet -> ../../../wordpress/plugins/akismet/5.7

Before this change, pulling only that plugin indexes and downloads wordpress/plugins/akismet/5.7/ but leaves wp-content/plugins/akismet absent under --fs-root. After this change, the pull also recreates wp-content/plugins/akismet with the same relative target spelling, so the selected plugin resolves locally.

Note

This is Codex through and through. This issue was identified in Automattic/studio#4491, then verified, planned, implemented, and tested by my agent.

[github-actions]

Pull pipeline performance — large-directory

Site: large-directory · 2,000+ plus targeted file-transfer scenarios files · 10,000 posts · 25,000 postmeta · PHP 8.5.9

Stage	PR	trunk	Δ	Status	Details
playground-sqlite-db-pull	9.57 s	9.57 s	⚪ -1 ms (-0.0%)	✓	condition=db-pull in PHP.wasm runtime=php.wasm 8.3 wp_mysql_parser=enabled mode=lexer native_lexer=verified native_token_stream=WP_MySQL_Native_Token_Stream native_token_count=18 native_parser=selected trunk: condition=db-pull in PHP.wasm runtime=php.wasm 8.3 wp_mysql_parser=enabled mode=lexer native_lexer=verified native_token_stream=WP_MySQL_Native_Token_Stream native_token_count=18 native_parser=selected
playground-sqlite-db-apply	3.52 s	3.57 s	⚪ -49 ms (-1.4%)	✓	condition=db-apply to SQLite in PHP.wasm runtime=php.wasm 8.3 wp_mysql_parser=enabled mode=parser native_lexer=verified native_token_stream=WP_MySQL_Native_Token_Stream native_token_count=18 native_parser=verified native_ast=WP_MySQL_Native_Parser_Node sqlite_driver_parser=verified trunk: condition=db-apply to SQLite in PHP.wasm runtime=php.wasm 8.3 wp_mysql_parser=enabled mode=parser native_lexer=verified native_token_stream=WP_MySQL_Native_Token_Stream native_token_count=18 native_parser=verified native_ast=WP_MySQL_Native_Parser_Node sqlite_driver_parser=verified
Total	13.09 s	13.13 s	⚪ -49 ms (-0.4%)

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