From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:36:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot
Message-ID: <7vzmlvk2bs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43CC5231.3090005@michonline.com>

Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> I've been trying to track down a strange issue with building kernels
> (and scripts/setlocalversion) and finally realized the problem was the
> when run under fakeroot, git-diff-files thinks everything is changed
> (deleted, I believe)

BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to
the version number.  But I wonder why you are doing the build
under fakeroot to begin with?  Wasn't the SOP "build as
yourself, install as root"?