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Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> I've been trying to track down a strange issue with building kernels
> (and scripts/setlocalversion) and finally realized the problem was the
> when run under fakeroot, git-diff-files thinks everything is changed
> (deleted, I believe)

BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to
the version number.  But I wonder why you are doing the build
under fakeroot to begin with?  Wasn't the SOP "build as
yourself, install as root"?