Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel

[Kristof Provost]

On 2014-12-04 20:21:58 (+0800), Freeman Zhang <freeman.zhang1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally I cloned the mainline kernel from
> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git".
> However, when I'm looking at the git directory, I got nothing but:
> 
> 	.   ..	arch  .DS_Store  .git  .gitignore  .mailmap
> 
Are you by any chance trying to do this on an OS X machine?
That's going to lead to pain and suffering.

For example, there are a couple of files which have the same name with
different case, which isn't going to work on a default OS X install.
By default OS X has a case insensitive file system. It's possible to
change that, but you *really* want a Linux system to build the kernel.

Regards,
Kristof