Re: [PATCH] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks

[Genki Sky]

Hi Andreas,

On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:42:11 +0100, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 10 2018, Genki Sky <sky@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:34:37 -0800, Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> +		git_status="$(git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain 2>/dev/null)"
> >> +		if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> >> +			if echo "$git_status" | grep -qv '^.. scripts/package'; then
> >
> > Shouldn't this be:
> >
> > 	if printf '%s' "$git_status" | grep -qv '^.. scripts/package'; then
> >
> > I.e., use printf not echo? Because of echo introducing a newline.
>
> The input to grep should be a text file, thus should end with a newline.

Ah okay, thanks. I guess GNU grep was being lenient. Well then, I
think the line at least needs to be changed to:

	if [ -n "$git_status" ] && echo "$git_status" | grep -qv '^.. scripts/package'; then

I'm just trying to say that in the proposed patch, if git doesn't
print anything, the echo adds a newline that wasn't there before. This
causes the grep -qv to exit with status 0 (because there's at least
one line that doesn't contain '^.. scripts/package'). Meaning it will
print dirty.