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Capture the results of the experiment and a hypothesis
I will try to create a Unix shortcut file next and push it into the repository from my Mac.
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Let's see if all it takes is for a file to have a relative path of another file in its body or there is more magic
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to this that I am not privy to at the moment.
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I created two shortcut files, `shortcut.md` and `shortcut2.md`, one before the destination file existed and another
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after it did, however neither of them got a special icon.
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I am starting to think this might be a Unix thing with the file having special attributes that GitHub renders the
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special icon for but no other special handling.
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This is supported by the fact that the Mermaid MarkDown shortcut file just opens its raw content like any other
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MarkDown file without doing any sort of redirecting or linkifying the content path.

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