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Well, it feels 'petty' and simple until:

1. You run into it, go "AH, wow, okay, I'll enable Developer Mode"

2. It still doesn't work, you're confused, you Google around a bit more and find out actually you also need to use a Git config option

3. You retry, now the symlinks work, but your compiler fails because "Destination Path Too Long", huh, that's weird

4. You google a bit more, and discover you need to set a registry option. So you do it, but you still get that error..

5. You discover there's another Git option you need to set

And then you're like, hey, what was I doing again? Where did the last hour of my time go? It's death by a thousand paper cuts.




Yak shaving.




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