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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Mathias Lafeldt <misfire@debugon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] GIT-VERSION-GEN: make use of git describe --dirty
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:11:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022151140.GC9224@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC1745C.70506@debugon.org>

Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

> Currently, GIT-VERSION-GEN invokes the plumbing commands "git update-index" and
> "git diff-index" to determine if the working tree is dirty. It then appends
> "-dirty" to the version string returned by "git describe".
> 
> However, as of Git v1.6.6, "git describe" can be told to do all that with the
> "--dirty" option, saving us the plumbing.

This has a minor downside, which is avoiding the nice version numbers when
building Git with git 1.5.6 installed.  What is the upside?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1287746107.git.misfire@debugon.org>
2010-10-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] GIT-VERSION-GEN: make use of git describe --dirty Mathias Lafeldt
2010-10-22 15:11   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-23 12:23     ` Mathias Lafeldt
2010-10-27  7:50       ` Mathias Lafeldt
2010-10-27 14:28         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] GIT-VERSION-GEN: tweak processing of version file Mathias Lafeldt
2010-10-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] GIT-VERSION-GEN: style nitpicks Mathias Lafeldt

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