Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks

Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-16T15:18:52Z

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:12 AM Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> git-diff-index does not refresh the index for you, so using it for a
> "-dirty" check can give misleading results. Commit 6147b1cf19651
> ("scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust") tried to
> fix this by switching to git-status, but it overlooked the fact that
> git-status also writes to the .git directory of the source tree, which
> is definitely not kosher for an out-of-tree (O=) build. That is getting
> reverted.
>
> Fortunately, git-status now supports avoiding writing to the index via
> the --no-optional-locks flag, as of git 2.14. It still calculates an
> up-to-date index, but it avoids writing it out to the .git directory.
>
> So, let's retry the solution from commit 6147b1cf19651 using this new
> flag first, and if it fails, we assume this is an older version of git
> and just use the old git-diff-index method.
>
> It's hairy to get the 'grep -vq' (inverted matching) correct by stashing
> the output of git-status (you have to be careful about the difference
> betwen "empty stdin" and "blank line on stdin"), so just pipe the output
> directly to grep and use a regex that's good enough for both the
> git-status and git-diff-index version.
>
> Cc: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>
> Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Suggested-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>

Worked for me, and clean implementation. Nice!

I will wait a few days before I pick it up
in case some people may give comments, Reviewed-by, Tested-by, etc.

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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada