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Wrong instructions in Install Cryptpad

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
85/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
git
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open the linked CryptPad installation guide and compare its clone command with the available branches in the CryptPad repository. Update the documented branch or version so the command works, then verify the corrected command can clone the repository successfully.

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Description

The guide to Install Cryptpad on https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/admin_guide/installation.html is wrong, the Cryptpad repository cannot be cloned when following those instructions:

$ git clone -b 2025.12.0 --depth 1 https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad.git cryptpad
Cloning into 'cryptpad'...
warning: Could not find remote branch 2025.12.0 to clone.
fatal: Remote branch 2025.12.0 not found in upstream origin
Dominant language
HTML
Stars
39
Forks
22
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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