Re: [PATCH] describe: refresh the index when 'broken' flag is used

Abhijeet Sonar <abhijeet.nkt@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:10:49 +0530

> So I still do not understand why you > want a second user in this 
test. What I really wanted to do was closely mirror the environment in 
reproduction steps mentioned in original bug report. Which I figured 
could be done by changing the owner to a second user.

On 24/06/24 23:28, Junio C Hamano wrote:

     $ git describe --dirty --broken
     v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2
     $ cat COPYING >RENAMING && mv RENAMING COPYING
     $ git diff-index --abbrev=8 HEAD
     :100644 100644 536e5552 00000000 M	COPYING
     $ git describe --dirty --broken
     v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2-dirty
     $ git describe --dirty
     v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2

Thanks, I will use this in the tests.