git describe --dirty shows dirty when cwd not repo work directory. Confirmed by osse on freenode irc #git ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ pwd /home/ubuntu/tmp ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ git clone https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs.git ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ GIT_DIR=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs git describe --dirty v0.4.18-381-gca77ecc76-dirty ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ cd go-ipfs ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp/go-ipfs$ GIT_DIR=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs git describe --dirty v0.4.18-381-gca77ecc76 workaround: use -C arg instead of GIT_WORK_TREE git -C /path/to/work/directory describe --dirty v0.4.18-381-gca77ecc76 I tried to find the issue, but git's code isn't easy to grok in a few minutes. Thanks to osse and gxt for their help! moocowmoo
