gradle/gradle — pull request #182 by surfing (2013-08-02 20:59:01+00:00)
Title: GRADLE-2844 Symbolic link support for TarFileTree

This is my first attempt to add support for untaring of symbolic links.
Please give feedback. I am subscribed to the dev mailing list. We can discuss it there, too.
There exists a problem with the Copy task. It fails when the symbolic link is copied before the target, but I think this is a different issue.