Files missing when moving to a tag'd rev

[Chris Mason]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:13, Matt Mackall wrote:

> It's pretty clear it was the git packing at this point.
>
> It was mostly working because most of the files changing on the tip
> were not packed, but as soon as someone merged a branch from an old
> ancestor it started hitting files that were packed. The convert script
> then treated them as deleted.
>
> This silently corrupted the repo. As this can't really be fixed
> without getting people to repull, I'm going to take this opportunity
> to rebuild the big kernel repo and correct the problems that snuck in
> with the first import.
>
> I'm also going to change the layout on the web. The big repo is going
> to move to /hg/bkcvs and then I'll add another for linus-2.6 which
> won't have all the history. Then I'll start importing a bunch of the
> other git trees.

Great.  I'm guessing www.kernel.org/hg is still the broken rep?  Just in case 
you were not aware, some files are present that shouldn't be.  One example:

http://www.kernel.org/hg/?cmd=file;filenode=03f407b1ffef629b5a1712f1355a3c7043b0a9ac;file=include/asm-mips/fp.h

-chris