From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?= Subject: Re: ".dirty" suffix when building git from the source code Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:06:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <40378e40910200459i14b06002k1b805936e39b5022@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Git To: bamakhrama@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 20 14:14:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0DU6-0000Tq-V6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:06:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751897AbZJTMG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:06:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751846AbZJTMG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:06:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com ([209.85.219.217]:40599 "EHLO mail-ew0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344AbZJTMG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:06:28 -0400 Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so5274667ewy.39 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.88.75 with SMTP id z53mr2361282wee.46.1256040392109; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:06:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <40378e40910200459i14b06002k1b805936e39b5022@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mohamed Bamakhrama 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