Checking out Android source from github

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After going through all of these steps to check out the Android source code (Gingerbread branch), only to come to a compile error, I have decided to try to get the source code from a different source.

Here are the steps that I have taken to checkout the source code from the GitHub.com repository.

I checked out the repo tool from the GitHub.com repository

git clone git://github.com/android/tools_repo.git

Inside the repo script file that was downloaded, I changed the location of the repo tool as follows:

## repo default configuration
##
#REPO_URL='git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git'
REPO_URL='git://github.com/android/tools_repo.git'
REPO_REV='stable'

After this, I created the repository for the source code using the repo script 'git wrapper'.

repo init -u git://github.com/android/platform_manifest.git -b gingerbread

Which gave me a successful results; "repo initialized in /home/my/directory"

However, when I try to repo sync, I get the following error message:

$ repo sync

Initializing project platform/bionic ...
android.git.kernel.org[0: 149.20.4.77]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
error: Cannot fetch platform/bionic

Where are the references to the now-offline android.git.kernel.org? cat repo|grep kernel.org gives me nothing.

netimen · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14 10:50:26Z

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Here you can find the howto on checking out from github.

answered Oct 14, 2011 at 10:50

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Hatzen Over a year ago

Link seems to be offline as google+ is not available anymore

Eddie · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14 00:46:14Z

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If you look at the default manifest in the platform_manifest repository, you'll see that kernel.org is still used quite frequently.

You'll have to wait for kernel.org to come back online, or consider hacking on CyanogenMod, which has a working manifest.

EDIT: It appears that all of the Korg repos are mirrored on GitHub. In that case, try patching with this pull request and then try a repo sync.

edited Oct 14, 2011 at 0:46

answered Oct 13, 2011 at 23:25

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Tyler Over a year ago

See this is what I was afraid of.. waiting. How does codeaurora.org allow me to check out the whole branch? Sure it doesn't compile, but it should be possible using a find/replace?

Eddie Over a year ago

I've updated my answer, try patching using that pull request and you should be syncing with GitHub rather than Korg.

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