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

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:09 AM Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:42:26AM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > An even simpler approach would be:
> >
> > {
> >         git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain 2>/dev/null ||
> >         git diff-index --name-only HEAD
> > } | grep -qv scripts/package &&
> >         printf '%s' -dirty
> >
> > Sample run:
> > cmd
> > sh: cmd: command not found
> >
> > {
> >         cmd 2>/dev/null ||
> >         date
> > } | grep -q 2018 &&
> >         printf '%s' ok
> > ok
>
> You lose accuracy here, because now you're skipping any line that
> contains 'scripts/package', which would include, e.g., paths like
>
>   tools/some/other-scripts/package
>
> Maybe if the grep expression were more like this?
>
>   grep -qv '^\(.. \)\?scripts/package'
>
> I think it'd be safe enough to ignore paths that start with two
> characters and a space, like:
>
> xy scripts/package
> x/ scripts/package
>
> Brian

Thanks for your input.
I've found the following grep command, that uses extended regular
expressions, to work as required:

{
        echo hello
        echo scripts/package
        echo '.. scripts/package'
        echo tools/some/other-scripts/package
} | grep -Ev '^(.. )?scripts/package'

[Output]
hello
tools/some/other-scripts/package

If the participants of this email exchange consider the proposed
implementation as fitting the bill,

{
        git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain 2>/dev/null ||
        git diff-index --name-only HEAD
} | grep -Eqv '^(.. )?scripts/package' &&
        printf '%s' -dirty

Was the original committer of the patch proposed here,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/10/55, going to take it in, and resend it
as v2 of the patch, or did you want me to submit the patch instead?
I would be happy with either way.

Thanks.