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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2007, 14:22 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0707020722q25e8eb41t456e7316fe4a7b40@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4689073D.1020802@garzik.org>

On 7/2/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

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> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 02/07/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> >   for the umpteenth time, after doing a pull, i see this:
> >> >
> >> > $ git diff
> >> > diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
> >> b/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
> >> > deleted file mode 100644
> >> > index e69de29..0000000
> >> > $
> >>
> >> I have the same problem.  git 1.5.0.6 on Fedora Core 5 or 6.
> >>
> >> I even tried a completely fresh clone, but the problem still appears.
> >>
> > I've seen that as well, but in my case doing a
> > $ git reset --hard master
> > fixed it.
>
> Sure.  git checkout -f fixes it too.
>
> But then it reappears the every time I switch branches.
>

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.

It is somewhat unclear what "reappear" means, though: do you mean in your working directory (that's what I explained above) or do you mean: on the commit pointed by HEAD?

In that second case I can only suspect that all your branches point at the same commit, which is just before the one the file was removed in...