From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:03:41 GMT
Subject: Re: bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean'
Message-ID: <xmqqh7p5pa3m.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <ed404c7e-d098-348d-d8fe-dae8aa5a5fda@arcor.de>

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.