From: Marco Roeland Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:29:26 GMT Subject: Re: why does git perpetually complain about include/asm-blackfin/macros.h? Message-ID: <20070702142926.GB10400@fiberbit.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <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