{"id":849,"date":"2013-09-23T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:59:57","slug":"git-missing-files-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"GIT &#8211; &#8216;Missing Files&#8217; Solved.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to information received from <strong>Mace Moneta<\/strong>, I can confirm that the &#8216;missing files&#8217; problem I experienced with Raspberry Pi GIT downloads was due to the fact that I was using the &#8216;<strong><em>Download ZIP<\/em><\/strong>&#8216; option, which &#8211; it seems &#8211; is defective!<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to use the <strong><em># git clone<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;. command, as follows:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><em># git clone -b &lt;branch_name&gt; --single-branch https:\/\/github.com\/xxx\/xxx<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>So, for the latest Pi version:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><em>git clone -b rpi-3.11.y --single-branch https:\/\/github.com\/raspberrypi\/linux<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>One further point..\u00a0 For <em><strong># git clone.<\/strong><\/em>. downloads, remember to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">deselect<\/span> <em><strong>&#8216;General Setup \/ Automatically append version information to the version string&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> in <em><strong>xconfig<\/strong><\/em> (or equivalent), if you don&#8217;t want a long string of odd characters after the resulting module version in <strong>~\/lib.modules<\/strong>!<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 23, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to information received from Mace Moneta, I can confirm that the &#8216;missing files&#8217; problem I experienced with Raspberry Pi GIT downloads was due to the fact that I was using the &#8216;Download ZIP&#8216; option, which &#8211; it seems &#8211; is defective! The solution is to use the # git clone&#8230;&#8230;. command, as follows: # git clone <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=849\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,16],"tags":[174,617,614,532,616],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","tag-git","tag-git-clone-ok","tag-missing-files","tag-solved","tag-zip-option-broken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}