On 06/01/16 12:40, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> + git describe 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'; \ >> + if ! git diff-index --quiet HEAD &>/dev/null; >> then \ >> + printf -- '-dirty'; \ >> + fi \ > > /me suggests "git describe --dirty --match 'v*'" > > Saves the extra effort to check for a dirty tree manually.
We couldn't convince ourselves that support for "--dirty" is ubiquitous; please see the sub-thread rooted at <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/414824/focus=414828>. > Also greatly reduces the chance non-release tags are matched, so I don't > get results like "pull-vga-20160523-1-236-g9fd5eb7". Since what version is "--match" supported? ;) Thanks Laszlo
