下载特定的Chromium修订版源代码

Question

I am using CEF3 to build an application. I have encountered a bug and thus debugging requires some Chromium source code.

I have managed to use https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/how-tos/get-the-code and downloaded what I think is the latest source code. However CEF uses revision 33.0.1750.170 and the source code has a total of almost 15gb on my machine - I think this is because git downloads all file history.

Could somebody please provide me with instructions of how I can download just the 33.0.1750.170 files or how I could use my current download to maybe checkout that revision into another directory?

Answer 1

Once you have the git repo cloned, you can do something like this:

git checkout tags/33.0.1750.170

This is because Chromium "tags" their releases, as documented on the page you linked.

Once you do that, your working directory will contain the code for the requested release. There's no way to clone only that release, you need to get the entire 15 GB first, then go to the revision you want.

Use git tag -l to list all available tags. See Download a specific tag with Git