On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:55 AM Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We don't use NEED_WORK_TREE when running the git-describe builtin, > since you should be able to describe a commit even in a bare repository. > However, the --dirty flag does need a working tree. Since we don't call > setup_work_tree(), it uses whatever directory we happen to be in. That's > unlikely to match our index, meaning we'd say "dirty" even when the real > working tree is clean. > [...] > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh > @@ -145,14 +145,38 @@ check_describe A-* HEAD > +test_expect_success 'describe --dirty with --work-tree' ' > + [...] > +' > > +test_expect_success 'describe --dirty with --work-tree' ' > + [...] > +' Can you give these two new tests different titles to make it easier to narrow down a problem to one or the other if one of them does fail? Perhaps the second test could be titled: test_expect_success 'describe --dirty with dirty --work-tree' ' or something.