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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 2, 2007, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707020834310.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <4688EF9B.8020405@garzik.org>

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> 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.

Git complains for a very simple reason: that file is an empty file, and "make clean" removes all zero-sized files.

So whenever anybody does a "make clean" (maybe it's "make distclean", I forget), you will have removed the empty file, and git will show it as a diff.

We probably should just remove the file from the kernel archive.

		Linus