DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming?

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 1 07:11:57 EST 2007


> Ok, figured out why.  When I push, then pop a quilt patch some of the
> files end up with their original contents, but changed timestamps.
> That altered stat information causes git-diff-index to give false
> indications of changed files, so setlocalversion adds the -dirty.
> Running git status, or gitool or various other things causes git to
> notice that the files aren't really changed, updates the index and
> then the version is generated correctly again.
>
> Not very robust though.

Well you can't blame that on DTC's build system, nor on the
setlocalversion script, and not on Git either; it's a Quilt
problem...


Segher




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