"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ls > > arch drivers include kernel Makefile net > Documentation fs init MAINTAINERS mm security > > given than Makefile and MAINTAINERS were removed, > why are they re-added now? That is to be expected. Operations in sparsely checked out trees are meant to minimally checkout what have been touched by a merge so that the user can use usual file inspection tools on them to see the result. While I suspect that is a separate issue, I do not know offhand what causes that "cannot lock ref" thing nor have time to look at it right now. - 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