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Git on Windows: The unknown Perils

Today when I was finally setting up a few things in my work laptop and tried to work with a few codes I pushed to my git repository I faced a new error again. What I wanted to do. Just a simple git cli call to add a repository to my local phonegap build. And I ended up with Interesting. Very interesting. As it turns out it is a platform specific bug in Windows with Git. Never noticed it before because I never used windows very much for my dirty development works. Apparently { [Error: Command failed: fatal: could not create work tree dir 'C:\Users\RXK132 ~1\AppData\Local\Temp\plugman\git\1404826931375'.: No such file or directory ] killed: false, code: 128, signal: null }    [error] Command failed: fatal: could not create work tree dir 'C:\Users\RXK13 2~1\AppData\Local\Temp\plugman\git\1404826931375'.: No such file or directory Is produced as windows is unable to create the directory structure. If you manually create the