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Re: why does git perpetually complain about include/asm-blackfin/macros.h?

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MRMarco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Date
Jul 2, 2007, 14:29 UTC
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<20070702142926.GB10400@fiberbit.xs4all.nl>
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<81b0412b0707020722q25e8eb41t456e7316fe4a7b40@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday July 2nd 2007 at 16:22 Alex Riesen wrote:
> Do some of your branches miss the commit by which it was removed?
> (It was removed in df30b1171714bbf0e55ffe02138be4b8447e4235)
> Than it will reappear every time you switch to a branch which still has
> the file.

The problem is that this commit didn't delete the file, but truncated it to zero size. How it got to be like that is another matter. Within the kernel zero sized files are not supposed to be there, by widely accepted practice. So lots of tools assume they should delete them!

-- 
Marco Roeland
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Message 7 of 14 in “Re: why does git perpetually complain about include/asm-blackfin/macros.h?”
  1. Jeff GarzikJul 2, 2007
  2. Jesper JuhlJul 2, 2007
  3. Jeff GarzikJul 2, 2007
  4. Robert P. J. DayJul 2, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenJul 2, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenJul 2, 2007
  7. Marco RoelandJul 2, 2007
  8. Blackfin arch: include/asm-blackfin/macros.h die die dieMarco Roeland, Jul 2, 2007
  9. Bryan WuJul 3, 2007
  10. Jeff GarzikJul 2, 2007
  11. Sam RavnborgJul 14, 2007
  12. Marco RoelandJul 2, 2007
  13. Bryan WuJul 3, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsJul 2, 2007

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