On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:40:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

That was a rather long-winded explanation of what happened, mainly because 
it was all very unexpected to me, and I had personally mistakenly thought 
the git optimization was perfectly valid and actually had to go through 
the end result to see what was going on.

Anyway, the diff on kernel.org should be all ok now, and mirrored out too.

Thanks again for being so quick to track this down, applies fine and is
out for building in rawhide now.

cheers, Kyle