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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Ernst Reissner <rei3ner@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean'
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Date:   Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:03:41 -0800
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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.