Following the "Install Flutter manually" resulted to error
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Description
### Page URL
https://docs.flutter.dev/install/manual/
### Page source
https://github.com/flutter/website/tree/main/src/content/install/manual.md
### Describe the problem
After downloading the flutter sdk, unzipping and moving it to preferred directory, I tried checking it by running `flutter --version` but it resulted to error:
```bash
$ flutter --version
Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project.
The flutter tool requires Git in order to operate properly;
to install Flutter, see the instructions at:
https://flutter.dev/get-started
```
same with dart
```bash
dart --version
Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project.
The flutter tool requires Git in order to operate properly;
to install Flutter, see the instructions at:
https://flutter.dev/get-started
```
### Expected fix
Following the instruction should resulted to successful flutter installation.
### Additional context
What I did for now is, remove the downloaded sdk and clone the stable version instead.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable
```
Running `flutter --version` gives expected result
```bash
flutter --version
Flutter 3.35.6 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision 9f455d2486 (9 days ago) • 2025-10-08 14:55:31 -0500
Engine • hash a5f2c36e367c13f868cfe98db5806f562c52c35e (revision d2913632a4) (10 days ago) • 2025-10-07 17:26:21.000Z
Tools • Dart 3.9.2 • DevTools 2.48.0
```
### I would like to fix this problem.
- [ ] I will try and fix this problem on docs.flutter.dev.
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