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From: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
To: bamakhrama@gmail.com
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ".dirty" suffix when building git from the source code
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:06:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0910200506q7ef95823qe461e77f8ce827be@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40378e40910200459i14b06002k1b805936e39b5022@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mohamed Bamakhrama
<bamakhrama@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have cloned the git repository and built the v1.6.4.4 tag. The
> compilation went OK and I got the tool up and running. However, when I
> generate patches, I see that the tool comments the patches with
> "1.6.4.4.dirty".
>
> My question is: what is the meaning of the ".dirty" suffix?

It says that the git source code was modified when git was compiled.

HTH,
Santi

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20 11:59 ".dirty" suffix when building git from the source code Mohamed Bamakhrama
2009-10-20 12:06 ` Santi Béjar [this message]

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