Gitversion: dirty flag?

[Trass3r]

Couldn't find a way to get a dirty flag, like git describe [...] --dirty

[asbjornu]

What is it you want to achieve?

[Trass3r]

Well a dirty flag in the informational version when there are locally modified files.

[asbjornu]

Ah, yes that would be a good thing to have, I agree. We welcome pull requests! 😄

[Sam13]

I did some prototyping on that. Since the git versions are cached in the .git folder, I don't know how the dirty flag should behave. Causes wrong results when caching that. @asbjornu what do you propose?

[asbjornu]

Makes sense. Perhaps when calculating --dirty, you need to disable caching altogether?

[brdmllr]

I hope this isn't a naive solution as I haven't spent a lot of time looking at the GitVersion source, but could the output of the "git status --porcelain" command act as input for this feature and if that input has a non-zero length, something is added to the informational version?

[Sam13]

The thing which should be achieved by this issue, is that the informal assembly version contains an information whether the working copy has local modifications or not.

If _git status_ provides this information as well we may also use this command as source for that information.

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[Sam13]

Still a useful feature in my opinion

[asbjornu]

@Sam13, I agree, but unless someone submits a PR that implements this, the feature won't make its way into GitVersion.

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[simonbuehler]

hi,

i found how this got handled in another project, could this be incooperated?
https://github.com/desaster/gitrevsubst/commit/544462be2a60cf4ebf53543329147f40a1071302#diff-a8d7dc4a2b96ae65d37ab09ad03939dd

basicaly its testing describe --always --dirty if it ends with "dirty"

[sbyholm]

I was searching for this, would be happy to have a dirty flag in GitVersion

[asbjornu]

A PR implementing this would be merged, I'm sure.

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