Windows Error trying to install Theodolite using Helm

Trying to install theodolite using the following helm command leads to the following error:

helm install theodolite . -f preconfigs/minimal.yaml
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: failed to install CRD crds/benchmark.yaml: unable to decode "": json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type unstructured.detector

Removing all files in helm/crds and replacing them with the files of theodolite/crd fixes the error

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Probably this is due to the symlink in helm/crds not working properly on Windows. We have to investigate this further.

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This should only affect installing Theodolite from the helm directory, not installing it from the Helm repo.

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Alternative workaround is:

helm repo add theodolite https://cau-se.github.io/theodolite
helm repo update
helm install theodolite theodolite/theodolite

Apparently, there is no real solution to this problem as it is a limitation of Git on Windows. https://stackoverflow.com/q/5917249/4121056 provides some discussion and possible solutions. As probably most developers will use Linux for working on the Helm chart, we will continue using symlinks in the Helm chart. I added some instructions in 77f5e030 on how to overcome this iusse.

With finishing our docs (!164 (merged)), it will not longer be necessary to checkout the repo for simply installing Theodolite. Instead, the aforementioned way of installing Theodolite should be used. When using the Helm Repo at https://cau-se.github.io/theodolite, all symlinks are already resolved.

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