On 19/04/2016 02:34, Gedare Bloom wrote:
I didn't quite follow. Is this to determine whether RSB should do
something?

I am sorry, I should have provided more of a context.

I guess this is caused by some bootstrap or configure that
creates untracked files in a repo?

Yes.


What does it matter?


It is used to create the version message, for example gcc ...

$ i386-rtems4.12-gcc --version
i386-rtems4.12-gcc (GCC) 6.0.0 20160327 (RTEMS 4.12, RSB 6843e47ce33961e5a705285f3af7a78cae0c2891-modified, Newlib 2.4.0)

This lets us know if the repo is clean or dirty and if changes have been made. It helps us support users and it can be part of the evidence in an audit.

Chris
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