HEAD is now at 9e52a21

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I am trying to run a kernel module on a Nexus 7 emulator on Ubuntu.

I ran this command in the terminal: git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git

Then I want to checkout this: git checkout remotes/origin/android-msm-flo-3.4-jb-mr2

Once I entered that line above I got this error:

HEAD is now at 9e52a21... 
qseecom: Fix issue with incomplete command exiting prematurely

I tried it with sudo, I tried adding things like -p, -3 at the end of the command, but nothing works. How do I fix this?

When there is an error in git, normally it is louder than that. Nevertheless, it is a fair question ;) — Jorge Leitao, Mar 27, 2014 at 18:38
For sudo you could use the -E option or env_keep to keep all the environment variables in place. — trysis, Mar 27, 2014 at 18:39
Close-voter(s): This is about Ubuntu; the question is about git (which is running directly on Ubuntu), not Android. — Eliah Kagan, Mar 27, 2014 at 19:19

Elliott Frisch · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-27 04:52:04Z

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That is a commit message, and not an error. Your command succeeded.

answered Mar 27, 2014 at 4:52

Elliott Frisch

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The whole thing is git telling you what's been checked out: HEAD is git's term for 'the currently selected version', 9e52a21 identifies the particular version, and the following line is the commit message describing the most recent change.
– deltab
Mar 27, 2014 at 15:51
@deltab +1 But, I believe it was specifically the commit message (qseecom: Fix issue with incomplete command exiting prematurely) that looked like an error to OP.
– Elliott Frisch
Mar 27, 2014 at 15:56
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That is a consistent problem with Git: the output gives a lot of information, but you need a thorough understanding of Git to figure out whether it succeeded or failed. This is a good example: after the checkout, it printed out the hash and the message of the latest commit. Of course, the hash is unintelligible and many commit-message contain error messages (since they are typically fixing errors).
– Michael Lorton
Mar 27, 2014 at 18:30
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I like this idea.
– MathCubes
Apr 11, 2014 at 3:35

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