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Why is clone succeeded, but checkout failed?

Getting following error/warning when I clone a large project in my Windows 10.

....
error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_common.h: No such file or directory
error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_decode.h: No such file or directory
error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_encode.h: No such file or directory
Updating files: 100% (9536/9536), done.
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

Why the warning appears and how to resolve this?

However, I tried to run following command from the downloaded repo root directory as per gits suggestion,

git restore --source=HEAD :/

But again I got similar error like,

    ....
    error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_common.h: No such file or directory
    error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_decode.h: No such file or directory
    error: unable to create symlink Codes/MyProject/Pods/Headers/Public/nanopb/pb_encode.h: No such file or directory
Solution

  • The problem was solved using following command from Git bash,

    git config --global core.symlinks false