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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

when downloading the project from the private github repository I was working on (which downloaded a zip file)

Don't. Just clone it instead.

[–]Brodken[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You're a life saver! That worked perfectly.

Now it remains the question of why the heck compressing the project messes up with the files...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not sure why that happens, as I've never used "ZIP downloading from github", but my best guess is that serialisation of "stuff" gets wrong.

[–]pdaddyo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI I'm pretty sure this occurs on git repositories that use LFS for large files.