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

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

quoted

  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