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
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ def assembleBackend (backend, frontends, versions):
 #====================================================================
 
 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"
 
 	for frontend in settings['frontends']:
 		normalizedFrontendName = frontend.replace(".", "_")
@@ -147,12 +147,15 @@ def main ():
 	parameters = list(itertools.islice(sys.argv, 1, None))
 
 	sys.path.append(os.path.join(scriptDir(), 'backends'))
 	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']
 	parameters = deque(itertools.dropwhile(lambda x: not x.startswith('--'), parameters))
 	
 	if len(parameters) > 0: