Re: determine if the tree is dirty

> As part of a python script I need to determine if a tree has any
> uncommitted changes, so far I am been using:
>
>   # determine tree status
>   status_cmd = 'git status'
>   status_output = run_external_command(status_cmd,
> honour_ret_code=False)[1].strip()
>   if status_output.endswith('no changes added to commit (use "git add"
> and/or "git commit -a")'):
>     git_status = 'UNCLEAN: Some modifications not committed'
>   else:
>     git_status = 'CLEAN: All modifications committed'
>
> but I feel that this relies to heavily on the porcelain and that there
> should be a better way to accomplish this without relying on parsing
> the output of git-status.
>
> Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this?