From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] describe: add option --dirty
Message-ID: <7vsl7fmwud.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87odi3mxtl.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>

Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> writes:

> when --dirty is given, git describe will check the working tree and
> append "-dirty" to describe string if the tree is dirty.
> ---
> I'm not sure this is good idea or the current way (using diff-index in
> shell script) is more prefered.

Hmph, this makes sense _ONLY_ for HEAD, doesn't it?

IOW, what should this output?

	$ git checkout v1.5.0 ;# detached HEAD
        $ git reset --hard  ;# clean slate
        $ echo >>Makefile ;# not anymore
        $ git describe --dirty v1.4.0^1

Should it say "v1.4.0-rc2-156-g0a8f4f0-dirty"?  The dirtiness
does not have anything to do with commit v1.4.0^1, so...