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@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Are you a Google employee? See |
* A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly |
recommended. |
-* At least 100GB of free disk space. |
+* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32 |
+ will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB. |
* Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, see below (no other version is supported). |
* Windows 7 or newer. |
@@ -52,20 +53,17 @@ context menu though. |
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Add depot_tools to the start of your PATH (must be ahead of any installs of |
-Python). Assuming you unzipped the bundle to C:\src\depot_tools: |
- |
-With Administrator access: |
+Python). Assuming you unzipped the bundle to C:\src\depot_tools, open: |
Control Panel → System and Security → System → Advanced system settings |
-Modify the PATH system variable to include C:\src\depot_tools. |
- |
-Without Administrator access: |
- |
-Control Panel → User Accounts → User Accounts → Change my environment variables |
+If you have Administrator access, Modify the PATH system variable and |
+put `C:\src\depot_tools` at the front (or at least in front of any directory |
+that might already have a copy of Python or Git). |
-Add a PATH user variable (or modify the existing one to include): |
-`C:\src\depot_tools`. |
+If you don't have Administrator access, you can add a user-level PATH |
+environment variable and put `C:\src\depot_tools` at the front, but |
+if your system PATH has a Python in it, you will be out of luck. |
Also, add a DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN system variable in the same way, and set |
it to 0. This tells depot_tools to use your locally installed version of Visual |