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Asked: 2026-05-28T22:51:23+00:00

I’m new to git and trying to do what I thought would be trivial.

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I’m new to git and trying to do what I thought would be trivial. I just want to extract the files from the downloaded archive.

I used git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git

I got a directory “common” with several subdirs including common/.git/objects/pack/*biglongname*.pack and a similarly named .idx file.

I’ve search all over for a simple command to extract the source files. I’ve tried git archive, git unpack-objects, git pull and a bunch of others with no joy.

What am I missing here? this just has to be simple.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This repository is a bit strange, since the HEAD has no files in it. You have to checkout one of the two real branches: 

     git checkout android-3.0

    or 

     git checkout android-2.6.39
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