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From: Ash Holland <ash@sorrel.sh>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: `git describe --dirty` doesn't consider untracked files to be dirty
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 10:04:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHJUbDg2KA9Xo_CAO=cgrZewOH0zfEhOVydhMN8fLvVDmji4sQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

There seems to be a discrepancy between how `git describe --dirty` is
documented and how it actually behaves. The documentation describes
the --dirty flag like this:

> If the working tree has local modification "-dirty" is appended to it.

but certain kinds of "local modification", namely untracked files,
don't cause "-dirty" to be included.

Please could this be fixed, either in the documentation or in git describe?

thanks,
Ash
she/they

             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-07  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07  9:04 Ash Holland [this message]
2020-09-08  7:40 ` `git describe --dirty` doesn't consider untracked files to be dirty Raymond E. Pasco
2020-09-08 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-08 23:16   ` Aaron Schrab
2020-09-08 23:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-19 18:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20  0:17       ` Ash Holland
2020-09-20  1:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20  2:12         ` Junio C Hamano

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