Clone corruption to G4 MacOSX

I have a G4 iBook running MacOSX 10.4.10. If I build the most recent production git (git-1.5.3.2) from the tarball from the git website, I get a corrupt copy of Linus's kernel repository (git://git.kernel.org/ pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git) when I try to clone it. Specifically, my copy is missing several files, including ./ include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h. The involved files seem to be:

include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h include/linux/netfilter/xt_DSCP.h include/linux/netfilter/xt_MARK.h include/linux/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_CONNMARK.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_DSCP.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ECN.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_MARK.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TCPMSS.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TTL.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_HL.h include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_MARK.h net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ECN.c net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TOS.c net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TTL.c net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_HL.c net/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.c net/netfilter/xt_DSCP.c net/netfilter/xt_MARK.c net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c

I first noticed this corruption around August 14, 2007, when it seemed to be in the head of the clone of Linus's repository. I was able to make it go away by committing the HEAD. I was just starting with git, and figured I got some incomplete copy because Linus was in the middle of something. Now I cannot find any commits for xt_CONNMARK.h or xt_connmark.h since 2006, especially around August 14, but that might be my naivete.

If I clone Linus's repository to a x86 machine, I get no corruption.

My wild ass guess is that being big-endian is causing trouble.

-- Perry