From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802ADDD0D for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:12:34 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20070727020041.GC1561@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070726030550.GA1149@localhost.localdomain> <20070726142739.GB18684@localhost.localdomain> <20070727013331.GB1561@localhost.localdomain> <20070727020041.GC1561@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:11:57 +0200 To: David Gibson Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jon Loeliger List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > Ok, figured out why. When I push, then pop a quilt patch some of the > files end up with their original contents, but changed timestamps. > That altered stat information causes git-diff-index to give false > indications of changed files, so setlocalversion adds the -dirty. > Running git status, or gitool or various other things causes git to > notice that the files aren't really changed, updates the index and > then the version is generated correctly again. > > Not very robust though. Well you can't blame that on DTC's build system, nor on the setlocalversion script, and not on Git either; it's a Quilt problem... Segher