[feature request] add a --copy-links option to mise bootstrap remote

[marcpmichel]

The current behavior of mise bootstrap remote is to create a "project" folder in the remote host with the content of the source folder passed as a parameter.
As of now, links a copied as-is.
It could be interesting/useful to optionally copy the files/folders represented as symbolic links in the source directory to real files/folders using a --copy-links option ( like other tools like rsync ).

mise bootstrap remote myhost --source infra/myhost --copy-links

It would allow for an easy management of what is sent to the remote host for bootstraping ( think: modules or ansible's playbooks ).

[jdx]

Implemented in #12121 with two scopes:

• --copy-link <PATH> is repeatable and dereferences only the named source-relative link. If it points to a directory, symlinks nested inside that target remain symlinks, which avoids unexpectedly expanding small links buried in dependency or vendored trees.
• --copy-links provides the requested rsync-style global behavior and dereferences every symlink recursively.

Both modes are configurable in mise.toml at [bootstrap.remote] or per host:

[bootstrap.remote]
copy_link = ["modules/common", "playbooks/shared"]
# copy_links = true # opt in to recursive global dereferencing

The documentation calls out that global dereferencing can expand deep links and copy content from outside the source directory.

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