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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/setlocalversion4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index f3084d6bbb22..6865df6699c8 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ scm_version()
fi
# Check for uncommitted changes.
+ # This script must avoid any write attempt to the source tree,
+ # which might be read-only.
+ # You cannot use 'git describe --dirty' because it tries to
+ # create .git/index.lock .
# First, with git-status, but --no-optional-locks is only
# supported in git >= 2.14, so fall back to git-diff-index if
# it fails. Note that git-diff-index does not refresh the