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

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:20 PM Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:18 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:07 PM Genki Sky <sky@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:55:14 -0800, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Ubuntu 16.04 ships with git version 2.7.4.
> > >
> > > Okay. I guess --no-optional-locks is a no-go then.
> >
> > In theory you could wrap it.  If passing git with
> > "--no-optional-locks" doesn't work you could fall back to the old
> > code?  That would mean only people with newer git would get your new
> > feature and everyone else would stick with the pre-existing behavior.
>
> +1, that's what I was going to suggest. Presumably older git would
> give non-zero exit status for unknown flags, and we take that as
> signal to try to the old way?


I also like this idea!

I will pick-up this revert patch soon.


Brian,
Could you please send a patch on top of that?


Thanks!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada