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What does repo init and repo sync actually do?
I posted this question at Android Enthusiasts but figured it was the wrong place to ask, so I deleted it from there and asking it "again" here.
This is such a noob question, and pardon me if it is, ...
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how to troubleshoot AOSP make failure src not found error
I have read some of the content on Android source, and my goal is to build an image for the Note III from Sprint. My make fails with the following message at the top: "find: `src': No such file or ...
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Avoid device-specific Android source code fetching
I am working with the Android source code. Every time I do a repo sync I get to download loads of device-specific repositories I don't want because I will only target one device, let's say, HTC Ace.
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What specifically does the AOSP repo tool checkout for each git repo?
Using the "repo" (written in python) tool from AOSP, when you use its "sync" command, according to other answers I've read here such as (How does the Android repo manifest repository work?) it will ...
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How can I check if an Android code change is in a particular release?
I'd like to know which release a particular change to android source has gone into if any.
For example, is latest change at http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/drivers/nfc/pn533.c in ...
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repo/git revert to state as one month ago
I'm working with AOSP sources which were downloaded by repo command (http://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html)
Now I need to get all repository as it was 1 month ago.
I found here ...
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Android AOSP Repo Init fatal: error unknown url type: https
Can anybody suggest a solution ?
I am running Ubuntu 12.0.4
I have :
Python 2.6 -- 2.7, which you can download from python.org.
GNU Make 3.81 -- 3.82, which you can download from gnu.org,
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downloading android source problems [closed]
I'm very new to this. please forgive any misuse of terminology.
I am following the steps on source.android.com to download the source for android 4.2.2_r1
I did the steps where I initialized the ...
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How to properly manage changes to Android source?
Let's say I'm building Android or CyanogenMod from source and want to make changes to its source. Also, let's assume I don't want to submit these changes (since they are incomplete or are changes that ...
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Android source code and repo - What exactly is happening when getting code
I have come across plenty of short questions on minimal aspects of using repo to get Android source or very broad definitions of what repo does and as a result don't really understand what is ...
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Getting fatal error while downloading android source code using Repo
I want to download android source code.
I followed following steps,
$ curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
$ mkdir android-source
$ cd ...
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How to merge android repo branch off old release to new release master?
We have an android platform repo branch worked on by a vendor. Lets say it is vendor-branch. It is based off release 1.0. The vendor-branch changes were never committed to release 1.0.
Now we are ...
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how to download android open source project on windows machine?
I can't install ubuntu on my office pc so i need to know is there any way to download android open source project on windows machine ? How ?
Thanks.
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Difference between repo start and git checkout -b
Doing some work in the Android Kernel. I am very familiar with git, but not extraordinarily familiar with repo, so I read the following document: http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html. ...
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Building from android source code
I don't quite understand how Android version control tool "repo" works.
I ran it repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest ; repo sync the first time, it downloads 9GB of code.
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