From 32ecb98410b05155e85b1475e8c0829e5a98cda5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcono1234 <Marcono1234@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:13:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Describe workaround for cloning with long file names on
 Windows

---
 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f82e864383..9236c82fe7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ In addition to this library, you may be interested in:
   GitLab or Azure DevOps
 - The [API docs][api-docs] for Dependabot's hosted instance (dependabot.com)
 
+## Cloning the repository
+Clone the repository with Git using:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core.git
+```
+
+On Windows this might fail with "Filename too long". To solve this, run the
+following commands in the cloned Git repository:
+
+1. `git config core.longpaths true`
+2. `git restore --source=HEAD :/`
+
+You can read more about this in the [Git for Windows wiki](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Git-cannot-create-a-file-or-directory-with-a-long-path).
+
 ## Setup
 
 To run all of Dependabot Core, you'll need Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, Node, Go,

From 319863e67b35620bababe1c97f00004c6ee17356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcono1234 <Marcono1234@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:29:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Recommend `git reset` when cloning repository on Windows
 fails

`git restore --source=HEAD :/` which is currently suggested by Git does not work,
it is unable to restore the files, see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3411.
---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9236c82fe7..c77adccfa1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ On Windows this might fail with "Filename too long". To solve this, run the
 following commands in the cloned Git repository:
 
 1. `git config core.longpaths true`
-2. `git restore --source=HEAD :/`
+2. `git reset --hard`
 
 You can read more about this in the [Git for Windows wiki](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Git-cannot-create-a-file-or-directory-with-a-long-path).