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		int_19h on Sept 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS Sequoia is available today "dirty" usually means that the commit doesn't correspond to any specific version tag in the repo (or whatever other mechanism is used to map commits to versions).

mdaniel on Sept 17, 2024 [–]

Incorrect: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe#Documentation/git-desc...

> If the working tree has local modification "-dirty" is appended to it.

and one can see their invocation of --dirty here: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/cff5336ec71b6fee396a95bb0e...

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