+ linux-kbuild list which is not in the output of: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/setlocalversion ... but seems relevant anyway. On 31/03/16 13:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Lowry <andy.work@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> So I think now that the script should do "update-index --refresh" >> followed by "diff-index --quiet HEAD". Sound correct? > > Yes. That has always been one of the kosher ways for any script to > make sure that the files in the working tree that are tracked have > not been modified relative to HEAD (assuming that the index matches > HEAD). Too bad kernel/scripts/setlocalversion didn't get the memo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cdf2bc632ebc9ef51 > scripts/setlocalversion on write-protected source tree (2013) > I don't see how removing "git update-index" could do any harm. This causes a spurious "-dirty" suffix when building from a directory copy (as Mike learned the hard way) [...] https://public-inbox.org/git/1459432667.2124.2.camel@xxxxxxx
