Cloning git repo

Question

Today I cloned a Git repo successfully (I hope), however I can not see any source files in the cloned directory. To be specific I cloned the msm-kernel repo from Google with the command:

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git kernel_msm

Answer 1

The master branch of this repo is empty. You need to check out the proper branch:

$ git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/android-msm-2.6.35
  remotes/origin/master
$ git checkout android-msm-2.6.35
Checking out files: 100% (33866/33866), done.
Branch android-msm-2.6.35 set up to track remote branch android-msm-2.6.35 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'android-msm-2.6.35'
$ ls
COPYING     MAINTAINERS arch        firmware    ipc     net     sound
CREDITS     Makefile    block       fs      kernel      samples     tools
Documentation   README      crypto      include     lib     scripts     usr
Kbuild      REPORTING-BUGS  drivers     init        mm      security    virt
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