I have my home directory under git control, and I have a build
directory (not tracked by git) under my home directory into which I
untar files and then in which I build things, including git.
When doing this, the version reported always contains the '-dirty'
suffix, which I find annoying (and potentially misleading). I traced
this to the GIT-VERSION-GEN script, and I "fixed" it by checking
if there is a '.git' directory present before invoking git diff-index,
something like this:
dirty=$(sh -c 'test -f .git && git diff-index --name-only HEAD' 2>/dev/null) || dirty=
case "$dirty" in
'')
;;
*)
VN="$VN dirty" ;;
esac
If someone of authority here thinks this seems reasonable (or has a
better way), I will test this (along with any suggested improvements)
with the git repo itself (to ensure it puts '-dirty' when it really
should), and submit a patch.
Bill
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