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 First, you will need to checkout the WSL2 Linux kernel git repository:
 ```
-git clone [email protected]:microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.git
-cd WSL2-Linux-Kernel
 KERNEL_VERSION=$(uname -r | cut -d '-' -f 1)
-git checkout linux-msft-wsl-$KERNEL_VERSION
+git clone --depth 1 [email protected]:microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.git -b linux-msft-wsl-$KERNEL_VERSION
+cd WSL2-Linux-Kernel
 ```
 
 Then compile and install: