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

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.