On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Américo Wang wrote:

> >> >> +!/.gitignore
> >> >> +!/.mailmap
> >> >
> >> > Actually you want to *not ignore* .gitignore and .mailmap (and
> >> > .gitattributes which is missing here) anywhere, not only as top-level
> >> > file.  So .gitignore and .mailmap should not be prepended with slash.
> >>
> >> <and moved out of the 'Top-level generic files' section then>
> >>
> >
> > Please either revert 3b2a8c8f3c65 or merge the fixed up patch for
> > 2.6.34-rc2, otherwise include/linux will continue to be ignored by git
> > just like it is for 2.6.34-rc1.
> 
> Why not apply the patch from Jiri? Since this problem is introduced
> by new version of git, not that commit.
> 

Like I said, please either revert the commit that added "linux" to 
.gitignore or merge Jiri's patch.  I'm not interested in engaging in a 
discussion about what can or cannot be merged during rc cycles, I just 
hope this is resolved for rc2.