Sharing Instructions with the Team
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| August 30, 2025John addresses the practical challenge of streamlining shared coding standards and best practices using GitHub Copilot across multiple development projects. He explores how developers can avoid duplicating instruction files in each project repository by leveraging symlinks on Linux/macOS and NTFS junction points on Windows. By centralizing shared instruction files in a dedicated GitHub Copilot repository and creating scripts to automate the linking process, John provides a robust cross-platform solution that ensures consistency while minimizing maintenance overhead. The post includes technical details about symlinks and junctions, along with step-by-step scripts for creating these links, ensuring version control hygiene, and customizing for different operating systems. This approach not only simplifies collaboration but also helps teams maintain a single source of truth for shared instructions, making it an invaluable resource for managers, developers, and decision-makers in software projects.