Add symbolic link to latest run (#77)

Signed-off-by: Jerome Prinet <jprinet@gradle.com>
Co-authored-by: Jim Hurne <hurne_jim@yahoo.com>

Author: jprinet

components/scripts/lib/init.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ make_experiment_dir() {
   mkdir -p "${EXP_DIR}"
   cd "${EXP_DIR}" || die "Unable to access the experiment dir (${EXP_DIR})." 2
   rm -f "${BUILD_SCAN_FILE}"
+
+  make_symlink_to_latest_experiment_dir
+}
+
+make_symlink_to_latest_experiment_dir() {
+  LINK_NAME="$(dirname "${EXP_DIR}")/latest"
+  readonly LINK_NAME
+  rm -f "${LINK_NAME}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+  ln -s "${EXP_DIR}" "${LINK_NAME}" > /dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
 generate_run_id() {

release/changes.md

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 * FIX: Gradle experiment scripts fail when using the ```--project-dir``` argument to specify the build invocation directory.
+* Add a symbolic link to the latest experiment folder to ease folder navigation.