Re: Version string with git(1) (-dirty)

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:25:05PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:20:58PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > So, how do you get that "-dirty" suffix?  Is it autotools?  Or git?  Or
> > is it specific to the groff build system?  I could use some shell code
> > in the makefile to get it, but was asking mainly in case git already
> > gives that somehow.
> 
> Never mind, I should RTFM.  :)
> 
> $ MANWIDTH=72 man git-describe | sed -n '/^ *--dirty/,/^$/p'
>      --dirty[=<mark>], --broken[=<mark>]
>          Describe the state of the working tree. When the working tree
>          matches HEAD, the output is the same as "git describe HEAD".
>          If the working tree has local modification "-dirty" is
>          appended to it. If a repository is corrupt and Git cannot
>          determine if there is local modification, Git will error out,
>          unless ‘--broken’ is given, which appends the suffix
>          "-broken" instead.

But also, gnulib's git-version-gen (which groff uses) does this
manually.  See:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/git-version-gen

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]