From e53ec1962b7d3eede313df6f9b3022171121947c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: EllipticEllipsis <73679967+EllipticEllipsis@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 21:52:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on cloning into WSL's Linux filesystem (#1163)

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 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ab4733861..6f79ab8aee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ If you are using GCC as the compiler for Ocarina of Time, you will also need:
 
 #### 2. Clone the repository
 
+**N.B.** If using WSL, we strongly encourage you to clone into WSL's Linux filesystem using Linux's `git`.
+Cloning into the Windows filesystem will result in much slower read/write speeds, and often causes issues when Windows copies the files with the wrong line endings, which the compiler IDO cannot handle correctly.
+
 Clone `https://github.com/zeldaret/oot.git` where you wish to have the project, with a command such as:
 
 ```bash