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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:09:40 -0800
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To:     Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with
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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