Bug 20620 – dmd version has -dirty suffix

Happens again since 2.088, this time on Windows: >c:\d\dmd-2.088.1\windows\bin\dmd.exe --version DMD32 D Compiler v2.088.1-dirty Copyright (C) 1999-2019 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright might be an issue with "git describe --dirty" thinking files are modified due to unexpected autocrlf settings. probably related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17805

@rainers created dlang/installer pull request #469 "fix issue 20620 - dmd version has -dirty suffix" fixing this issue: - fix issue 20620 - dmd version has -dirty suffix run `git clean` instead of `make clean` to have platform independent cleanup restore original VERSION file to avoid `git describe` returning "dirty" due to a previous build https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/469

dlang/installer pull request #469 "fix issue 20620 - dmd version has -dirty suffix" was merged into master: - 96e860f017eb0c7abd714a196b00b2ce451fb44e by Rainer Schuetze: fix issue 20620 - dmd version has -dirty suffix run `git clean` instead of `make clean` to have platform independent cleanup restore original VERSION file to avoid `git describe` returning "dirty" due to a previous build https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/469

Have to reopen this, it's been reproducible for at least the last few releases that I can tell, including v2.102.0.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 22212 ***