Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] GIT-VERSION-GEN: make use of git describe --dirty

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:28:53 -0700 (PDT)

Mathias Lafeldt <[email-masked]> writes:
> Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

> > diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > index d441d88..5c226f6 100755
> > --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ elif test -d .git -o -f .git &&
> >         case "$VN" in
> >         *$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
> >         v[0-9]*)
> > +               # As of Git v1.6.6, we can use "git describe --dirty" to
> > +               # determine if the working tree is dirty. However, to still
> > +               # have nice version numbers when building Git with older
> > +               # versions of git installed, we keep using plumbing.
> >                 git update-index -q --refresh
> >                 test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" ||
> >                 VN="$VN-dirty" ;;
> > 
> 
> Any feedback would be welcome.

I like it, also because people who use GIT-VERSION-GEN from git
repository as inspiration would get to know more modern technique.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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