2012/1/20 Manavendra Nath Manav <mnm.kernel@gmail.com>:
Hi All,
I cloned 3.2 kernel from git repository, but I am not seeing any source files. The .git directory contains .git/objects/pack/*.pack file which is huge and it seems all source code with commit revision is stored there. When I do "git unpack-objects -r < xyz.pack", it completes 100% but still no source files show up. The only thing it generates is some more entries in .git/objects/ directory. The same problem also occurs when I try to clone android repository. Pls help, I am sure I am missing some obvious step here.
[root@pe1800xs src]# git clone --recursive -v http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git Cloning into linux-stable... remote: Counting objects: 2446667, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (391011/391011), done. Receiving objects: 18% (447106/2446667), 259.18 MiB | 43 KiB/s
[root@pe1800xs .git]# du -h 4.0K ./objects/info 284M ./objects/pack 285M ./objects 8.0K ./info 4.0K ./refs/tags 4.0K ./refs/heads 12K ./refs 48K ./hooks 4.0K ./branches 285M .
[e518816@pe1800xs common]$ git unpack-objects -r < .git/objects/pack/pack-d2d041c2bd4a39fdfdf37c896f64a3c1b53d3d2b.pack Unpacking objects: 100% (2074089/2074089), done.
From the man page of git-unpack-objects: "Objects that already exist in the repository will not be unpacked from the pack-file. Therefore, nothing will be unpacked if you use this command on a pack-file that exists within the target repository." I guess this is the problem I am facing. How do I extract the linux souce files (HEAD branch) from pack file?
-- Thanks & Regards, Manavendra Nath Manav
Hi 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