From ed628238cce2d3538a7176d8ef454b803967b76d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Woodruff <benjamin.woodruff@vercel.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 16:48:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: Remove useless symlink resolution logic in
 `recursive-delete.js`

---
 packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts | 27 +++++------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts b/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
index 78a96d197c42a..4aa55065ad783 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { Dirent } from 'node:fs'
 import * as fs from 'node:fs'
-import { join, isAbsolute, dirname } from 'node:path'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
 import isError from './is-error'
 import { wait } from './wait'
 
@@ -90,33 +90,16 @@ export async function recursiveDeleteSyncWithAsyncRetries(
   await Promise.all(
     result.map(async (part: Dirent) => {
       const absolutePath = join(dir, part.name)
-
-      // readdir does not follow symbolic links
-      // if part is a symbolic link, follow it using stat
-      let isDirectory = part.isDirectory()
-      const isSymlink = part.isSymbolicLink()
-
-      if (isSymlink) {
-        const linkPath = fs.readlinkSync(absolutePath)
-
-        try {
-          const stats = fs.statSync(
-            isAbsolute(linkPath)
-              ? linkPath
-              : join(dirname(absolutePath), linkPath)
-          )
-          isDirectory = stats.isDirectory()
-        } catch {}
-      }
-
       const pp = join(previousPath, part.name)
       const isNotExcluded = !exclude || !exclude.test(pp)
 
       if (isNotExcluded) {
-        if (!isSymlink && isDirectory) {
+        // Note: readdir does not follow symbolic links, that's what we want
+        let isDirectory = part.isDirectory()
+        if (isDirectory) {
           await recursiveDeleteSyncWithAsyncRetries(absolutePath, exclude, pp)
         }
-        return unlinkPath(absolutePath, !isSymlink && isDirectory)
+        return unlinkPath(absolutePath, isDirectory)
       }
     })
   )

From 484889dc4f26111b32e37dae6403af19516523b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Woodruff <benjamin.woodruff@vercel.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 10:45:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update comment

---
 packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts b/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
index 4aa55065ad783..8afb1c63c82ca 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/lib/recursive-delete.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ export async function recursiveDeleteSyncWithAsyncRetries(
       const isNotExcluded = !exclude || !exclude.test(pp)
 
       if (isNotExcluded) {
-        // Note: readdir does not follow symbolic links, that's what we want
+        // Note: readdir does not follow symbolic links, that's good: we want to
+        // delete the links and not the destination.
         let isDirectory = part.isDirectory()
         if (isDirectory) {
           await recursiveDeleteSyncWithAsyncRetries(absolutePath, exclude, pp)