Summary

When utilizing eclcc with the -checkDirty option the following output is always displayed:

Technical Details

• Utilizing my test ECL repository Persons, I executed the following command:

  eclcc -o Person.xml -E RunGetPerons.ecl --nostdinc --logfile Person.log -checkDirty

• If there was no change to the repository I get the following output:

  fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

• After making a change to one of the attributes I get the following output:

  RunGetPerons.ecl(0,0): info C1033: Definition is modified fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

• After doing some research I determined that the string was a error returned specifically by git describe.

  $ git describe fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. $ echo $? 128

• Executed the above mentioned command once again this time with the verbose -v option, and saw that git describe is among the git command executed by eclcc.

  $ eclcc -o Person.xml -E RunGetPerons.ecl --nostdinc --logfile Person.log -checkDirty -v ... git: Creating PIPE program process : 'git status --porcelain -z -- RunGetPerons.ecl' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0 git: Pipe: process 3330 complete 0 git: Creating PIPE program process : 'git status --porcelain -z -- /home/rosegr01/Developer/xecl/eclrepository/Persons/Person.ecl' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0 git: Pipe: process 3332 complete 0 git: Creating PIPE program process : 'git status --porcelain -z -- /home/rosegr01/Developer/xecl/eclrepository/Persons/Address.ecl' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0 git: Pipe: process 3334 complete 0 RunGetPerons.ecl(0,0): info C1033: Definition is modified git: Creating PIPE program process : 'git describe --tags --dirty --long' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0 fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. git: Pipe: process 3336 complete 128 Failed to run git describe: returned 128 ()

Possible Solution

Utilize the git describe command with --always option:

• Presently eclcc is executing the following git describe command.

  git describe --tags --dirty --long' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0

• A suggested solution is the following:

  git describe --tags --always --dirty --long' - hasinput=0, hasoutput=1 stderrbufsize=0