Re: why does git perpetually complain about include/asm-blackfin/macros.h?
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 16:24 +0200, Marco Roeland wrote:
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> On Monday July 2nd 2007 at 15:58 Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > [obnoxious zero sized file include/asm-blackfin/macros.h that gets
> > zapped by toolchains and resurrected again by git]
> >
> > I've seen that as well, but in my case doing a
> > $ git reset --hard master
> > fixed it.
>
> Dangerous, as it may overwrite local changes you have! A simple "git
> checkout include/asm-blackfin/macros.h" is much safer in this case.
>
> In git commit df30b11 this file got redundant. Perhaps because a normal
> patch was applied, instead of with git, the file didn't get deleted from
> the repository but truncated to size zero. Not strictly wrong perse, but
> for the Linux repository highly unusual (and the only one at that).
>
> Your toolchain perhaps deletes files with zero size after cleaning up or
> something. Git then notices that you deleted this file.
>
> Perhaps someone can apply something like the following to finally fix
> this up:
>
> commit 7d98740800f3d9ad2428afa8c677be9573a51b7b
> Author: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
> Date: Mon Jul 2 16:19:49 2007 +0200
>
> Blackfin arch: remove zero-sized include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
>
> This file accidentally got truncated instead of deleted in commit df30b11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h b/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e69de29..0000000
> -
Thanks, Applied to the blackfin-2.6.git tree for Linus pull.
- Bryan
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