Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot

Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:

I've been trying to track down a strange issue with building kernels
(and scripts/setlocalversion) and finally realized the problem was the
when run under fakeroot, git-diff-files thinks everything is changed
(deleted, I believe)

BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to
the version number.  But I wonder why you are doing the build
under fakeroot to begin with?  Wasn't the SOP "build as
yourself, install as root"?