diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 138dab2..0845740 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -396,8 +396,12 @@ When enabled, the following additional dependencies are required (only at build-
    git clone https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities.git                  # only required for Qt GUI
    git clone https://github.com/Martchus/reflective-rapidjson.git         # only required for JSON export
    git clone https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor.git
-   git clone https://github.com/Martchus/subdirs.git
+   git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/Martchus/subdirs.git
    ```
+   Note that `-c core.symlinks=true` is only required under Windows to handle symlinks correctly.
+   This requires a recent Git version and a filesystem which supports symlinks (NTFS works).
+   If you run into "not found" errors on symlink creation use `git reset --hard` within the repository to
+   fix this.
 2. Configure the build
    ```
    cd "$BUILD_DIR"