builder: add --force-dirty flag

Besides being good for development, it seems to be a necessity in case
we are checked out as a submodule

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/builder/main.py b/scripts/builder/main.py
index ecdbf6a..47e10a0 100755
--- a/scripts/builder/main.py
+++ b/scripts/builder/main.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def build (settings, repository):
         frontends = []
         
         if repository.areTherePendingChanges():
-                if 'install' in settings['versions']:
+                if 'install' in settings['versions'] and not settings['forcedirty']:
                         raise Exception("repository has pending changes, can't 'install'")
                 else:
                         print "\nWARNING: repository has pending changes\n"
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ def main ():
         sys.path.append(os.path.join(scriptDir(), 'frontends'))
         currentRepository = repository.repositoryWithPath(projectBaseDir())
 
+        settings['forcedirty'] = len(parameters)
+        parameters = list(itertools.ifilter(lambda x: not x=='--force-dirty', parameters))
+        settings['forcedirty'] = len(parameters)==settings['forcedirty']
         clean()
         versions = list(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: not x.startswith('--'), parameters))
                 settings['versions']  = versions;       #['debug', 'install', 'development', 'checksum']