From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:32:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Unusual behavior from git describe
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_imU3_=E1LK-AG33Tj70iOJBTmt2_qdUKVHL9DVW2yJRQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+jCPNfwwhM8R-bB_VnwpaijSMf3BNydH35SqZt3dRb-P1AOmg@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 15:29, Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose that makes sense.  But what about building a package, which
> doesn't change any tracked files or add any (non-ignored) untracked
> files, would cause the index to appear dirty in the first place?

Does it perhaps touch some of the tracked files? That way it would
make sense git at first thinks it's dirty (since the lstat info
changed), but then 'git status' will actually check the contents of
the file and notice that they're equal? Just guessing here though.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier