From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Haupt Subject: Re: Git tags Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:55:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20080403145518.GA16641@ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain> References: <47F4E1AF.5060509@visionsystems.de> <20080403143250.GA16034@ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain> <47F4EC46.5030307@visionsystems.de> <20080403144736.GA16376@ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403144736.GA16376@ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain> Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andre Haupt Cc: Yegor Yefremov , linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:47:36PM +0200, Andre Haupt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:40:06PM +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote: > > Dear Andre, > > > > thank you for your answer. Yes. I have made some changes to the kernel > > sources. Is it really so, that if I make some changes Makefile or some > > other script notices this fact and adds "dirty" to the kernel version > > string? > If you do not commit your changes (i.e. git status shows modified files) > than yes. > > Best regards, > > Andre See also http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2007-08/msg00045.html I was bitten by this too and Erik Mouw provided a very valuable answer. Andre