From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ernst Reissner <rei3ner@arcor.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean'
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:03:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7p5pa3m.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed404c7e-d098-348d-d8fe-dae8aa5a5fda@arcor.de> (Ernst Reissner's message of "Tue, 1 Dec 2020 11:46:35 +0100")
Ernst Reissner <rei3ner@arcor.de> writes:
> To keep backward compatibility,
> maybe it is a good idea to add a second suffix, maybe 'untracked' to
> display in addition.
It won't work for folks who have used output from "describe --dirty"
as the base of their version number, as their procedure do not know
they need to strip "-untracked" at the end.
A new option, "describe --dirty --untracked", is possible, though.
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2020-12-01 10:46 bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean' Ernst Reissner
2020-12-01 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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