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

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:37:28AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

distclean on purpose delete zero size files.
And the kernel tree shall not contain such files - if it does it is a bug.

So I do not see a 'problem' with the kernel makefile but instead a problem
with the kernel tree wich is about to be fixed.

Agree?

	Sam