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Message-Id: <1183422489.10353.2.camel@roc-laptop>
Date:	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:28:09 +0800
From:	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
To:	Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@...all.nl>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: why does git perpetually complain about
	include/asm-blackfin/macros.h?

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 16:24 +0200, Marco Roeland wrote:
> On Monday July 2nd 2007 at 15:58 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > [obnoxious zero sized file include/asm-blackfin/macros.h that gets
> >  zapped by toolchains and resurrected again by git]
> >
> > I've seen that as well, but in my case doing a
> > $ git reset --hard master
> > fixed it.
> 
> Dangerous, as it may overwrite local changes you have! A simple "git
> checkout include/asm-blackfin/macros.h" is much safer in this case.
> 
> In git commit df30b11 this file got redundant. Perhaps because a normal
> patch was applied, instead of with git, the file didn't get deleted from
> the repository but truncated to size zero. Not strictly wrong perse, but
> for the Linux repository highly unusual (and the only one at that).
> 
> Your toolchain perhaps deletes files with zero size after cleaning up or
> something. Git then notices that you deleted this file.
> 
> Perhaps someone can apply something like the following to finally fix
> this up:
> 
> commit 7d98740800f3d9ad2428afa8c677be9573a51b7b
> Author: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@...all.nl>
> Date:   Mon Jul 2 16:19:49 2007 +0200
> 
>     Blackfin arch: remove zero-sized include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
>     
>     This file accidentally got truncated instead of deleted in commit df30b11.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@...all.nl>
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h b/include/asm-blackfin/macros.h
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e69de29..0000000
> -

Thanks, Applied to the blackfin-2.6.git tree for Linus pull.

- Bryan

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