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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?

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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.

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After your first clone, if you have directories that are submodules of the parent repo, you need to initialize them with:

git submodule update --init

Using git submodule update --init --recursive will also be needed if there are submodules inside submodules.

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Are the submodules their own git repo?
@birwin, yes git allows you to commit a hash (ie reference) of an entirely different git repo. This can be useful for common libraries. Making the library code a repo and adding it as a submodule to your project makes it a good way to share and maintain across different projects. (At that point it would be like picking up a dependency version that you can directly source control).
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One simple solution is to use the following command.

> git clone -b <branchname> <remote-repo-url>

Here -b is just an alias for --branch. And you can replace "" with the branch name.

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It seems that repository was cloned. Now you have to checkout something. What happens if you issue:

git branch
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Also, what happened on my system just now (windows 7). The automatic initialization (git init) did not take place during the 

git clone URL

Operation. Also got the same succesful clone msg.

After I did a 'manual' 

git init

The clone operation resulted in a dir with contents. After I repeated it.

So, just try a git init if a dir is empty after a git clone (and the master branch is not empty). Then repeat the clone.

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