kernel: kludge around mysterious 0-byte .git/HEAD files

kernel: kludge around mysterious 0-byte .git/HEAD files

No idea where these are coming from, but they break nodes with behavior
like

ubuntu@plana08:~$ sudo install -d -m0755 /lib/firmware/updates && cd /lib/firmware/updates && sudo git init
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /lib/firmware/updates/.git/
ubuntu@plana08:/lib/firmware/updates$ sudo git --git-dir=/lib/firmware/updates/.git config --get remote.origin.url >/dev/null || sudo git --git-dir=/lib/firmware/updates/.git remote add origin git://ceph.newdream.net/git/linux-firmware.git
ubuntu@plana08:/lib/firmware/updates$ cd /lib/firmware/updates && sudo git pull origin master
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

where the .git directory looks like

total 32
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2012-04-10 12:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 branches
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  236 2012-04-10 11:33 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 2012-04-10 12:52 config.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 2012-04-06 13:54 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 2012-04-06 13:54 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 2012-04-06 13:54 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 hooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 info
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 objects
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2012-04-06 13:54 refs

Hopefully someone can figure out what is causing this and revert this
later.