My cloning process showed no visible errors, but 'git status' print thousands of [Deleted]. I think that is why I miss nearly all the directories in my git directory. Anyway, now I'm using: rsync -av --progress rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git . rsync is resumable. Hope it works :) All the best! Freeman -------- Original Message -------- > Am 04.12.14 um 14:58 schrieb Freeman Zhang: >> Hi Kristof, >> >> You are right, I did clone the source on mac os. And I am really >> suffering :( > > I just tried it myself. Cloning works at least without *visible* errors. > Cross compiling on OSX will lead to errors though I guess because of the > aforementioned case insensivity. > > I'm on Yosemity, btw. > >> >> >> All the best! >> >> Freeman >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >>> On 2014-12-04 20:21:58 (+0800), Freeman Zhang >>> <freeman.zhang1992@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Finally I cloned the mainline kernel from >>>> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git". >>>> However, when I'm looking at the git directory, I got nothing but: >>>> >>>> . .. arch .DS_Store .git .gitignore .mailmap >>>> >>> Are you by any chance trying to do this on an OS X machine? >>> That's going to lead to pain and suffering. >>> >>> For example, there are a couple of files which have the same name with >>> different case, which isn't going to work on a default OS X install. >>> By default OS X has a case insensitive file system. It's possible to >>> change that, but you *really* want a Linux system to build the kernel. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kristof >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >>
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