Re: bug report/feature request: git describe: what is 'clean'

Ernst Reissner [off-list ref] writes:

To keep backward compatibility,
maybe it is a good idea to add a second suffix, maybe 'untracked' to
display in addition.

It won't work for folks who have used output from "describe --dirty"
as the base of their version number, as their procedure do not know
they need to strip "-untracked" at the end.  

A new option, "describe --dirty --untracked", is possible, though.