> Spent the day thinking through the concepts and fixing all the problems.
And another problem was that the version number for git repositories with local modifications was ending in '-dirty'. Which is problematic, because "dirty" is a word with a negative connotation, and making local modifications to source code is the *essence* of Free Software. Where does the mindset come from, to call locally modified source code "dirty"?! I guess, it's the mindset of a package author who thinks he's the only one who is able to produce correct code, and all other people's modifications must be something to warn against, hence the attribute "dirty". (Or maybe, in the early history of git, people were looking for an antonym of "clean", and picked the first they found?) In any case, I propose to change git-version-gen to replace "-dirty" with "-modified". To give a hacker an honouring word, not a shame word. Bruno
