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## Git Configuration
-Before cloning the sdc source code it's important to enable long paths on your Windows machine, otherwise git won't be able to handle some files
+Note that if you're working on Windows, it's important to enable long paths for your machine; otherwise git won't be able to handle some files.
In order to do so just add this section to your global git.config file under the `[core]` key:
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In order to build all the projects, go to sdc project and run the command: `mvn clean install`
Currently SDC build process also supports docker building.
-In order to build and upload local dockers to a local environment you'll need to define an environment variable on your machine with key: `DOCKER_HOST` and value: `tcp://<ip_address>:2375`
-For the dockers to be built during the build process use the "docker" profile by adding this: `-P docker` to the `mvn clean install` command
+Note that if you're working on Windows, you'll need to define an environment variable on your machine with key `DOCKER_HOST` and value: `tcp://<ip_address>:2375` in order to build and upload local dockers to a local environment.
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+For the dockers to be built during the build process use the "docker" profile by adding `-P docker` to the `mvn clean install` command
More flags to use in the build process are:
* -DskipTests - Skips unit tests execution