When building under the control of the "fakeroot" tool [*], as is the case when building a Debian package using "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot", GIT-VERSION-GEN appended "-dirty" to the version number; this happens because "git diff-index --name-only HEAD --" would report all files as changed if they have a non-root owner/group, since they appear as owned by root under fakeroot, leading to non-empty output. Refreshing the index first makes the decision based on content changes only. [*] http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/ Signed-off-by: Christian Jaeger <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- GIT-VERSION-GEN | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index cb7cd4b..fb3e2d8 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ elif test -d .git -o -f .git && *$LF*) (exit 1) ;; v[0-9]*) test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" || + { + # some metadata of files has changed; what + # about the contents? + git update-index --refresh + test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" + } || VN="$VN-dirty" ;; esac then -- 1.6.0.rc2.1.g7e734 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
