Setting Up Your Addon With GitHub

Split the game into a game and content folder, then add junctions or symlinks to link them with the Dota files.

Windows - Create the junctions

For game folder, run

mklink /J "C:\Users\Veggiesama\Desktop\HVH\game\hunter_v_hunted\" "C:\Games\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\dota_addons\hunter_v_hunted\"
# Junction created for C:\Users\Veggiesama\Desktop\HVH\game\hunter_v_hunted\ <<===>> C:\Games\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\dota_addons\hunter_v_hunted\

For content folder, run

mklink /J "C:\Users\Veggiesama\Desktop\HVH\content\hunter_v_hunted\" "C:\Games\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\content\dota_addons\hunter_v_hunted\"
#Junction created for C:\Users\Veggiesama\Desktop\HVH\content\hunter_v_hunted\ <<===>> C:\Games\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\content\dota_addons\hunter_v_hunted\

To remove junctions, simply remove the link directory

rmdir "C:\Users\Veggiesama\Desktop\HVH\content\hunter_v_hunted\" -force

Linux - Create the symlinks

For game folder, run

ln -s /home/username/games/Steam/steamapps/common/dota2/game/dota_addons/my_custom_game /home/username/workspaces/dota2-workshops/my_custom_game/game

For content folder, run

ln -s /home/username/games/Steam/steamapps/common/dota2/content/dota_addons/my_custom_game /home/username/workspaces/dota2-workshops/my_custom_game/content

Remove the symlinks by using

unlink /home/username/workspaces/dota2-workshops/my_custom_game/content
umlink /home/username/workspaces/dota2-workshops/my_custom_game/game

Now you can do modifications from the steamapps folder and still use Github for version control from a linked folder.