How to download google source code for android

Question

As you know, there is a list of several hundred projects in https://android.googlesource.com/. I'd like to download them all in windows machine. According to Google's document,

To install, initialize, and configure Repo:

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo


To clone the entire platform, install repo, and run:

mkdir mydroid
cd mydroid
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
repo sync

In my machine, however, I cannot "repo init" in Git Bash because it says it does not have python. I have python installed but git bash does not recognize it. Note that I set the python directory to the system path too. If anybody can give a tip, I would appreciate it. Thanks

UPDATE: I believe it's problem with new version of Git Bash for Windows. System path is not applied to Git Bash at all - I could easily test if system path worked with command prompt. Anyway, I tried this instead and it actually ran with error of course.

  /c/python27/python.exe  ../bin/repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest

The error message is

 $ /c/python27/python.exe ../bin/repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "../bin/repo", line 91, in <module>
    import readline
 ImportError: No module named readline

OK. I passed this error by installing pyreadline in windows:

 easy_install pyreadline

If you got an error, you must install setuptools from

 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#files

And finally ran the command again to get this:

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
fatal: unable to start d:\mywork\dev\GoogleAndroid\working_dir\.repo\repo/main.py
fatal: [Errno 8] Exec format error

Answer 1

With one click, download the latest code as .tar.gz file, from here https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+archive/master.tar.gz, the android could be found under core folder

Edit
Alternative here:
http://grepcode.com/project/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/

Just select the version then a download options within.

Answer 2

If you consider, as an example, this other program "sympy" which also needs git bash and python, it is only a matter to add python to your PATH prior to launching the git bash session.

Install Python from:

http://python.org/download/

by downloading the "Python 2.7 Windows installer" (or Python 2.6 or 2.5) and running it.
Add python directory to your system environment path variable
(My Computer -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Path -> Edit).

Note that the repo script itself must be in the path, as mentioned in the Version Control page of android:

Repo is a repository management tool that we built on top of Git. Repo unifies the many Git repositories when necessary, does the uploads to our revision control system, and automates parts of the Android development workflow.
Repo is not meant to replace Git, only to make it easier to work with Git in the context of Android.
The repo command is an executable Python script that you can put anywhere in your path.