Mathias Lafeldt wrote: > Currently, GIT-VERSION-GEN invokes the plumbing commands "git update-index" and > "git diff-index" to determine if the working tree is dirty. It then appends > "-dirty" to the version string returned by "git describe". > > However, as of Git v1.6.6, "git describe" can be told to do all that with the > "--dirty" option, saving us the plumbing. This has a minor downside, which is avoiding the nice version numbers when building Git with git 1.5.6 installed. What is the upside? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html