From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: sky@genki.is, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
lists@nerdbynature.de, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust"
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 19:16:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+ASDXN40pvbZKvsO3Cb8256AQJ3fyQh5TWdT+GDk_ncq11nMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=Wcxf7p1DyJdVEqODbc6TdTtbPiLszWCAS1xC6=4kkLbw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:18 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:07 PM Genki Sky <sky@genki.is> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:55:14 -0800, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-08 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 18:10 [PATCH] Revert "scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust" Guenter Roeck
2018-11-06 19:23 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-07 2:22 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-07 2:58 ` Christian Kujau
2018-11-07 3:10 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-11-07 4:00 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-07 18:44 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-07 20:43 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-07 20:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-11-07 21:07 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-07 21:18 ` Doug Anderson
2018-11-07 21:26 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-08 3:16 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2018-11-09 2:55 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-09 18:34 ` [PATCH] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks Brian Norris
2018-11-09 20:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-11-10 8:58 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-10 10:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-10 20:10 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-11 14:48 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-11 15:03 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-11 17:41 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-11 19:59 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-12 8:42 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-13 0:09 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-13 8:35 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-13 18:32 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-13 19:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Brian Norris
2018-11-13 19:47 ` Genki Sky
2018-11-13 22:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-15 2:06 ` Brian Norris
2018-11-15 2:11 ` [PATCH v3] " Brian Norris
2018-11-16 15:17 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-19 14:42 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-13 19:15 ` [PATCH] " Alexander Kapshuk
2018-11-09 2:55 ` [PATCH] Revert "scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust" Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-09 16:39 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-09 16:39 ` Masahiro Yamada
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