Re: git-describe recognize modified files

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:35:41 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> ...
> > > To solve this issue, in addition to git-describe, my do_version script
> > > also run git-status, and if there are "modified:" files then it
> > > concatenates the string "+dirty" to output of git-describe.
> > 
> > The problem is that this does not describe the exact version you used very 
> > well.
> 
> I (and probably the original poster) don't care that much; for me the
> important information is that the binary (or whatever) was not built
> from the exact committed state. Thus the question is whether the
> second two lines of
> 
>  BUILDINFO=git-`git describe --abbrev=16 --always HEAD 2>/dev/null`
>  git update-index -q --refresh
>  test -z "`git diff-index --name-only HEAD --`" || BUILDINFO="$BUILDINFO.dirty"
> 
> (after GIT-VERSION-GEN) are worth to be integrated into git-describe?
> 
> (And whether it should also say '.dirty'
>  when there are untracked files present.
>  Or either for submodules.)

FYI it is integrated in git-describe since

  9f67d2e (Teach "git describe" --dirty option, 2009-10-21)

by Jean Privat (it should be present in 1.6.6, IIRC).

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Jakub Narebski
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