Recently, I tried to download source code for chromium browser. In details, I just wanted to download code at https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/master/chrome. I tried several methods such as Downgit and SVN but nothing worked. The thing is, the methods I used worked on other sites and folders. I can't understand. Could anyone help me? If not, please let me know any other place where I can download desktop version chromium browser source code. Thanks in advance.
I found this question when I was looking for the same thing and as it turns out @VonC's solution is almost right. You do
git clone \
--depth 1 \
--filter=blob:none \
--no-checkout \
https://github.com/chromium/chromium \
;
cd chromium
but before you checkout you just set core.fscache = false via the
git config core.fscache false
command and then continue with
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-checkout set chrome
The sha1 error is not your fault and is just a bug with git, in another similar post an issue was opened about it and this fscache was the solution they gave for the time being. If you're on Linux you don't even have to do this. The commands mentioned above would work! Cheers.