Re: git-version-gen headaches

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday, February 19, 2011 14:49:32 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> further, some of the commands used in git-version-gen require write
> >> access to the .git repo (i.e. git update-index --refresh), which our
> >> package management tools flag as a violation (after all,
> >> building/installing packages in $PWD generally should not be updating
> >> files outside of $PWD).
> > 
> > Thanks for the report.
> > 
> > I've included a patch below that makes the script skip the -dirty
> > check (index-updating part) when appropriate.  If that's not enough,
> > please demonstrate precisely what's going wrong.
> 
> Here's a complete patch:

thanks, this seems to address the violations.  i guess that's all i really 
need ;).
-mike

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