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I am having Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my PC. 

heena@heena:~$ uname -r
3.8.0-29-generic

Also

heena@heena:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise

Following suggestions from How do I get the kernel source code? I am issuing the following command to get the source code of the kernel:

git clone git //kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-precise.git

But my doubt is how does the above command know I have to download the kernel version

3.8.0-29-generic

? The above command is not having such version? Is this command for downloading just kernel or the whole ubuntu? I am interested only in kernel. Also in which folder the source is being downloaded, that is also not clear to me.

UPDATE

To be precise my doubts will be cleared if someone can help me know:

Which version of kernel will be downloaded from the above command ?

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You can look at the Ans 

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
cd linux 
git checkout v2.6.36.2

To later switch to another version, it's easy:

git checkout v3.5.2

To update your repository to include all of the latest tags and commits:

git fetch

and for detailed steps Look at KernelBuild

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