Re: Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD

[Russell King]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:50:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Gents,
>
> In the following kernel commits,
>
> 	9c587c05d715ca8461342c2cb3b4a67036b5c22b
> 	ea5abbd215b749b2ff14397a47a5e65741c67bf4
> 	cc890cd78acd7ab03442907d354b6af34e973cb3
>
> the file ...$platform/mach/gpio.h is replaced with an empty file.  This  
> disagrees with kernel tradition and kernel makefiles, where zero length  
> files are intentionally deleted when "make distclean" is executed.

It would really help to have a hook in git which catches this at commit
time with a warning (like is possible for whitespace).  At least that
would alert folk to the problem at commit time before stuff has been
published.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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