OneDrive Issues with GitHub

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As we get started with git and GitHub, be aware that if you use OneDrive to sync directories on your computer to the cloud, it may cause problems to store your GitHub directories in those cloud-synced OneDrive folders. For example, see this thread. Here in the DIGIT program last year, we saw a number of problems like those described in the thread. The most challenging problems seemed to involve OneDrive relocating "home" to a location not easy to access from the Git Bash on Windows. (OneDrive's constant syncing can also dramatically slow down a PC, so it may be interfering with other processes on your computer, too.) Mostly we have seen these problems with Windows computers that come prepackaged with OneDrive.

One way we resolved these problems was to unlink OneDrive so that it no longer interferes with your control of your file directories. These instructions explain how to do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0