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Re: bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 1, 2020, 20:03 UTC
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Ernst Reissner <rei3ner@arcor.de> writes:
> To keep backward compatibility,
> maybe it is a good idea to add a second suffix, maybe 'untracked' to
> display in addition.

It won't work for folks who have used output from "describe --dirty" as the base of their version number, as their procedure do not know they need to strip "-untracked" at the end. 

A new option, "describe --dirty --untracked", is possible, though.
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