Running command 'hugo server' on windows vs macos

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Hi,
I was trying the google/docsy-example site and weird thing, it works perfectly after just 3 commands on a mac

git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/google/docsy-example.git
cd docsy-example
hugo server

But , when I do the same thing on a windows10 and simple command prompt.
Doing hugo server behaves weirdly ( or may be its what it does internally without showing, I dont have my windows 10 device with me right now or I would have tried the verbose flag)
This is what happens

Any ideas , so does hugo server is just not recommended for a simple windows command prompt, why does hugo server need to fire a git rev-parse --show-redup?

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Going off the screenshot in the GitHub issue you linked, the second part of the error message is something I can help you with: You need the Windows Extended version of Hugo.

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So, where can I download this Windows Extended version of Hugo ? Can you post a link here please.
Thanks

Edit: I was able to find it from the releases page.
It made no difference, but I downloaded git bash for windows and it works from that terminal.

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That error message is very clear. If that error still persists after getting the extended version, it means you have a PATH issue on your Windows PC (multiple Hugo versions). Try running:

hugo version

And look for the “extended” word.

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I had it installed via chocolatey, so I did replace my local with the new extended version I downloaded from github.

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I am also curious as to when we do hugo server, since this project has a package.json, does it automagically somehow also invokes postcss-cli and converts all the scss into css on the fly and store that in the public/server folder ( output folder for hugo builds) ?