Re: [PATCH] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 7:41 PM Genki Sky <sky@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:48:38 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

It was I who failed to read the proposed patch in its entirety in the
first place. I did not get the full picture as a result. My apologies.

Would something like this work for you?

local git_status
git_status=$(git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain 2>/dev/null)
test $? -eq 0 ||
        git_status=$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD)
if printf '%s' "$git_status"  | grep -qv scripts/package; then
        printf '%s' -dirty
fi