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doc: add note for windows users and symlinks
PR-URL: #53117 Reviewed-By: Stefan Stojanovic <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Vinícius Lourenço Claro Cardoso <[email protected]>
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git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
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cd node
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```
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> \[!TIP]
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> If you are building from a Windows machine, symlinks are disabled by default, and can be enabled by cloning
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> with the `-c core.symlinks=true` flag.
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> ```powershell
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> git clone -c core.symlinks=true <repository_url>
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> ```
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* If the path to your build directory contains a space or a non-ASCII character,
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the build will likely fail
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