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