Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust"

[Brian Norris]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:00:36PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On a different tangent: how about the --no-optional-locks (see
> git(1))? Will this get you your "up-to-date" result without writing to
> the .git directory? I've only read the documentation, but not tested
> it.

I think I can add a little to this: that option definitely avoids
writing to the git index (thus, avoiding the problem that Guenter and I
are trying to resolve) and the documentation suggests it should still
get up-to-date index information (thus, avoiding the problem that Genki
was trying to fix). So something like this would work (on top of the
revert):

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 71f39410691b..7dfe45badcca 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ scm_version()
 		fi
 
 		# Check for uncommitted changes
-		if git diff-index --name-only HEAD | grep -qv "^scripts/package"; then
+		if git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain | grep -qv '^.. scripts/package'; then
 			printf '%s' -dirty
 		fi
 
Unfortunately, --no-optional-locks is new as of git 2.14. Dunno how new
of a git we expect people to use.

Brian