try to trigger dirty state corrections

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/reloadCheckDirty.go b/reloadCheckDirty.go
index 826efef..69b6e52 100644
--- a/reloadCheckDirty.go
+++ b/reloadCheckDirty.go
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ func (repo *Repo) IsDirty() bool {
 	return repo.Dirty
 }
 
+func (repo *Repo) SmartSetState(newstate string) bool {
+	if newstate == repo.State {
+		// nothing changed
+		return false
+	}
+	repo.State = newstate
+	return true
+}
+
 // returns true if the repo is dirty
 // runs os.Exec('git') every time
 func (repo *Repo) CheckDirty() bool {
@@ -38,8 +47,6 @@ func (repo *Repo) CheckDirty() bool {
 		repo.State = "dirty"
 		return true
 	}
-	repo.State = ""
-
 	// dirty if anything but go.mod and go.sum
 	var bad bool = false
 	for _, line := range r.Stdout {
@@ -61,7 +68,9 @@ func (repo *Repo) CheckDirty() bool {
 	repo.Times.LastDirty = pbnow
 	repo.Dirty = bad
 	if bad {
-		repo.State = "dirty"
+		return repo.SmartSetState("dirty")
+	} else {
+		return repo.SmartSetState("")
 	}
 	return bad
 }