This can help the developer to realize there was some uncommited changes in the tree while testing. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 5548f8483..bf5bfa912 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ cflags += $($(*)-cflags) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) selfcheck: $(OBJS:.o=.sc) -SPARSE_VERSION:=$(shell git describe 2>/dev/null || echo '$(VERSION)') +SPARSE_VERSION:=$(shell git describe --dirty 2>/dev/null || echo '$(VERSION)') lib.o: version.h version.h: FORCE @echo '#define SPARSE_VERSION "$(SPARSE_VERSION)"' > version.h.tmp -- 2.17.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html