From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:02 GMT
Subject: Re: determine if the tree is dirty
Message-ID: <799406d60911031130u3e37677fi1a8dfd6f7fdfdfe9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3a4vs9g3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:06, Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net> wrote:

> 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" ;;

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:19, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Use plumbing commands.
>
> "git diff-files" will show changes you have in the work tree compared to
> the index.
>
> "git diff-index HEAD" will show changes you have in the work tree compared
> to the HEAD.
>
> "git diff-index --cached HEAD" will show changes you have in the index
> compared to the HEAD.

Fantastic, this is exactly what I was after! Thanks!

Cheers

Adam