Git pull and untracked files

[Gautam Bhat]

Thanks! That is helpful.

-Gautam.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:45 AM Valdis Klētnieks
<valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:23 +0530, Gautam Bhat said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I do a git pull to get the latest changes (from v5.2) , git
> > status shows the following files as untracked:
> >
> > scripts/conmakehash
> > scripts/pnmtologo
> > scripts/sortextable
> >
> > I don't see the files in .gitignore too but in the earlier version
> > i.e. v5.2 it is present. These files are binaries, should I go ahead
> > and delete them?
>
> And to add to my reply:  How to figure this out for yourself since
> you already have a git tree...
>
> For the first two, I did a 'git grep conmakehash', which told me it was
> in a different Makefile.  'git blame drivers/tty/vt/Makefile | grep conmakehash'
> popped out the commit for 'git show'...
>
> The last one I had to resort to 'git log | grep -B30 sortextable | more'