Hi Alexander, On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:48:38 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Piping the output of the git command to grep and using the return status > of grep as the test condition within the if block, would be sufficient > to determine whether or not '-dirty' should be printed. > > Sample run: > % if git --no-optional-locks \ > status -uno --porcelain \ > 2>/dev/null | > grep -qv '^.. scripts/package' > then > printf '%s' -dirty > fi
I don't think this works well for us. We need to check whether --no-optional-locks is available before using the output to determine whether the tree is dirty or not. If it's not available, we have to fall back on diff-index. Let me know if I'm misreading you.
