What exactly is meant when mr.developer says: The django-quoteme package is dirty.

Question

I am using mr.developer to track some packages on github. When I re-run my assembly, I get:

The package 'django-quoteme' is dirty.

Do you want to update it anyway? [yes / No / all] y

What does dirty mean exactly?

Answer 1

I do not know what this means specifically in this context, but in the world of computer science "dirty" usually means that it has been changed. Perhaps one of the files in the package has been edited, and if you update it, you will lose these changes, therefore, a warning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_%28computer_science%29

Answer 2

http://github.com/fschulze/mr.developer:

Dirty SVN

:

: 'foo' 'https://example.com/svn/foo/trunk/', .

src/foo, , status -v. *.egg-info, , buildout svn.

.egg-info Subversion ~/.subversion/config, :      -ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al.libs *.so.so. [0-9] *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej ~ ##. # *. *. swp.DS_Store *.egg-info

, , status -v, , "" .