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Update the mention about preferring C:\src\ for the chromium checkout

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I now had to fetch twice because I didn't realize that I should have
placed the checkout under C:\src\ as that's only told much later in the
documentation.

Change-Id: Ib6065e46356a8ef7571430c933b98af7438cfa13
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4647410
Auto-Submit: Sonja Laurila <laurila@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Flach <cmfcmf@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Sonja Laurila <laurila@google.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1162855}
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Sonja Laurila
2023-06-27 10:09:23 +00:00
committed by Chromium LUCI CQ
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docs/windows_build_instructions.md

@ -133,9 +133,11 @@ $ git config --global core.filemode false
$ git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always
```
Create a `chromium` directory for the checkout and change to it (you can call
this whatever you like and put it wherever you like, as
long as the full path has no spaces):
Create a `chromium` directory for the checkout and change to it. You can call
this whatever you like and put it wherever you like, as long as the full path
has no spaces. However there are some performance benefits for Googlers in
placing the directory under `C:\src\`
(See [Why is my build slow?](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#why-is-my-build-slow)).
```shell
$ mkdir chromium && cd chromium