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Installing Chirpy Starter, the short frustation

undocumented tutorial to install chirpy starter

Finally, after 4 hours of debugging, I can install this theme.

if you are trying to use chirpy, after you did the Option 1. Using the Starter (Recommended), go to .github/workflows/pages-deploy.yml. and you will find this

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jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          # submodules: true # < -- UNCOMMENT THIS LINE HERE
          # If using the 'assets' git submodule from Chirpy Starter, uncomment above
          # (See: https://github.com/cotes2020/chirpy-starter/tree/main/assets)

uncomment this line

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        # submodules: true 

to this

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        submodules: true

I’m freaking frustrated for trying to find out why my github action cicd keep failing because the file were not found and this was the reason.

I almost never touch frontend and very confused. This took too much time to debug.

I hope this helped other people

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