From: Jeff Garzik Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:37:28 GMT Subject: Re: why does git perpetually complain about include/asm-blackfin/macros.h? Message-ID: <46890DA8.4070400@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707020722q25e8eb41t456e7316fe4a7b40@mail.gmail.com> Alex Riesen wrote: > Do some of your branches miss the commit by which it was removed? git-clone followed by git-checkout master recreates the problem. But to answer your question directly, I rebase, so they absolutely do not miss any commits. > It is somewhat unclear what "reappear" means, though: do you mean Attempts to give you precise output to answer your question yielded a data point, the kernel's "make distclean" causes this: [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ make distclean && git checkout master && git diff HEAD D include/asm-blackfin/macros.h Switched to branch "master" diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h b/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ git checkout -f [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ make distclean && git checkout master && git diff HEAD D include/asm-blackfin/macros.h Switched to branch "master" diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h b/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ git checkout -f [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ git checkout master && git diff HEADSwitched to branch "master" [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ git checkout master && git diff HEAD Switched to branch "master" [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ So, not a git problem but a kernel Makefile problem. Sorry for the git noise. Jeff