Yes, that could be occurring as well. I did run the submodule update commands as mentioned above, and git did respond by apparently downloading a number of files. But I didn't log the activity so I cannot now say for sure what exactly happened. Either way, I did just run "git diff" and it shows that...

Indeed, it does look kind of messy and it may not be something I can easily and instantly fix. On the other hand, the project code all runs fine even with these diff's, and so other than the "-dirty" suffix showing up in the reported version, it does not actually affect my project. If I find an easy...

dastoned: That makes sense. If something is changing these files during installation, or they are not getting overwritten during the upgrades for some reason, it's probably best to just delete the entire thing and fully replace it. I did not try that specific step yet so it's worth a try. chegewara:...

Thanks for the tips. I did all the steps and git did update my local esp-idf copy. But now the esp version reports as: v4.1-rc-15-gbd72a9ab2-dirty So it's still considered dirty for some reason. I don't know why for sure this is, but it seems to be due to some original ESP files still being marked a...

Hello, I'm using the standard ESP32 programming environment in Windows and I'm trying to get rid of the "v4.1-dirty" version. I just want a standard and clean "v4.1" install. I've repeatedly installed new versions of esp-idf on my computer and they keep coming up as dirty. So I've also repeatedly tr...