Question

This always perplexes me.
I was cloning this

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git

And It seemed to be cloning resolving and receiving objects etc for long .
Then when it is done…

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git
Cloning into msm...
remote: Counting objects: 1636832, done
remote: Total 1636832 (delta 1367313), reused 1636832 (delta 1367313)
Receiving objects: 100% (1636832/1636832), 324.89 MiB | 331 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1367314/1367314), done.

I open the msm directory to find it empty.
This has happened before.
Any one has an explanation as to what went wrong?

Answer 1

This particular git repository seems to not have any contents on its master branch, which is the branch git checks out by default. It does however have another branch:

% git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/android-msm-2.6.35
  remotes/origin/master

So if you check out this branch:

% git checkout android-msm-2.6.35
Checking out files: 100% (33866/33866), done.
Branch android-msm-2.6.35 set up to track remote branch android-msm-2.6.35 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'android-msm-2.6.35'

then there’s also content in the working tree.