On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:00:36PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > On a different tangent: how about the --no-optional-locks (see > git(1))? Will this get you your "up-to-date" result without writing to > the .git directory? I've only read the documentation, but not tested > it.
I think I can add a little to this: that option definitely avoids writing to the git index (thus, avoiding the problem that Guenter and I are trying to resolve) and the documentation suggests it should still get up-to-date index information (thus, avoiding the problem that Genki was trying to fix). So something like this would work (on top of the revert): diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion index 71f39410691b..7dfe45badcca 100755 --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ scm_version() fi # Check for uncommitted changes - if git diff-index --name-only HEAD | grep -qv "^scripts/package"; then + if git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain | grep -qv '^.. scripts/package'; then printf '%s' -dirty fi Unfortunately, --no-optional-locks is new as of git 2.14. Dunno how new of a git we expect people to use. Brian