On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:06:08AM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Mirco Tischler [off-list ref] wrote:

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You just need to do git checkout master after the git clone. This
gives you the version the master branch in the stable repo points to
at the time of the cloning.
To update your local master branch later, just do git pull.

git unpack-objects is usually not directly needed by users. It's
called by git internally though.

Mirco

Thanks Mirco, after doing git checkout and git pull on cloned Linux
git repo, I can see all the Linux source files. The problem got
resolved for Linux tree but for android repository, I am still facing
issues.

That's different, you need to check out the specific android kernel repo
you want to use, by the branch name.

The android kernel tree is "wierd" that way, try doing this:
? ? ? ?git checkout android-3.0
and you should be fine.

Even better yet, do this:
? ? ? ?git checkout -t -b android-3.0 origin/android-3.0

which creates a "tracking branch" for this branch of their kernel tree,
which will let you handle things when they update it in the future to
newer releases.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h

Thanks Greg, the checkout with android-3.0 worked. I feel working with
git is a bit too geeky for the non-initiated. I can upvote this
because i didn't used the "repo python script" provided by Google to
download android source but git alone. Thank you all for the support.

[e518816 at pe1800xs common]$ git checkout android-3.0
Checking out files: 100% (37131/37131), done.
Branch android-3.0 set up to track remote branch android-3.0 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'android-3.0'

[e518816 at pe1800xs common]$ ls
arch     CREDITS        drivers   include  Kbuild   lib          mm
  REPORTING-BUGS  security  usr
block    crypto         firmware  init     Kconfig  MAINTAINERS  net
  samples         sound     virt
COPYING  Documentation  fs        ipc      kernel   Makefile
README  scripts         tools

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Cheers,
Manavendra Nath Manav