Does Copilot Code Review follow symlinks?

[harupy]

I have this PR mlflow/mlflow#19202 where I add .github/instructions/python.instructions.md that references a markdown file in the repo. I wonder if I can replace .github/instructions/python.instructions.md with a symlink that points to the markdown file.

[aaronpowell]

I would expect it to because the symlink is transparent to the application running on top, the file system handles the translation of the link to the file content.

I think you can commit symlinks into a git repo, so then it'd be possible that the instructions would continue to work across machines and with tools like Copilot coding agent.