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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
