2009-07-23 10:08:49

by Robert P. J. Day

Subject: annoying drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c file still there

i thought someone was going to clean up this occasional git glitch:

$ git diff
diff --git a/drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c b/drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
$

that same diff output still pops up on occasion. if you do a hard
reset back to origin, it goes away but it will eventually reappear.

rday
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2009-07-25 19:51:22

by Andrew Price

Subject: Re: annoying drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c file still there

Hi Robert,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:06:18AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i thought someone was going to clean up this occasional git glitch:
>
> $ git diff
> diff --git a/drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c b/drivers/char/vr41xx_giu.c
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e69de29..0000000
> $
>
> that same diff output still pops up on occasion. if you do a hard
> reset back to origin, it goes away but it will eventually reappear.

After some digging I found this:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ralf/linux.git;a=commit;h=ac01dc416905aeb331954d036287a0a0c5c90ec5

I read the thread that it references but there is no indication of
whether the empty file is going to be git rm'd any time soon. Perhaps
Ralf could comment?

Andrew