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From: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>, lists@nerdbynature.de
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	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, 07 Nov 2018 12:43:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181107.204358.257636196@genki.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181107184435.GA168339@google.com>

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 10:44:37 -0800, Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:00:36PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On a different tangent: how about the --no-optional-locks (see
> > git(1))? Will this get you your "up-to-date" result without writing to
> > the .git directory? I've only read the documentation, but not tested
> > it.

This option definitely seems to be what we want, good find.

> Unfortunately, --no-optional-locks is new as of git 2.14. Dunno how new
> of a git we expect people to use.

Hmm, I'm not sure who can speak to this.

Though if it's too recent, then based on earlier discussion, it sounds
like something like this (hack) might work best:

  [ -w .git ] &&
          touch .git/some-file-here 2>/dev/null &&
          git update-index --refresh --unmerged >/dev/null
  if git diff-index --name-only HEAD | ...

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-07 20:44 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 [this message]
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
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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