Re: determine if the tree is dirty

From: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
Date: Nov 3, 2009, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20091103190619.GC30171@unpythonic.net>
In-Reply-To: <799406d60911031057l5dcb4d4fi3705cc66997ff7f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:57:37PM -0600, Adam Mercer wrote:

> As part of a python script I need to determine if a tree has any
> uncommitted changes

GIT-VERSION-GEN uses something like this (shell script):
        git update-index -q --refresh
        test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" || VN="$VN-dirty" ;;

Jeff