On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Tyler Smith <tyler@plantarum.ca> wrote:

> I have tried links, but in all my attempts the links break whenever the
> source or the target is committed to version control. My understanding
> that each new commit to a file effectively changes the inode, breaking
> the link


Sounds like you might be using hard links instead of symbolic links ...
but first, are you using a unix-like system or another system?  The
symbolic link is a unix-like thing.

bjb