the git clone is empty? why this happens

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

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.