Jim Meyering wrote: > The resulting version string is "-dirty" IFF one builds > with locally-modified-but-not-committed changes. And doing *that* > is questionable enough (from version-control and reproducibility > standpoints) ...
I agree: when making a release that uses gnulib, one should archive or commit the particular version of gnulib. > ... that it deserves a label more pejorative than "-modified". But when someone asks for the version of gnulib, we don't know whether he's doing a release with it or not. Hence it does not necessarily deserve the bad label. Bruno
