diff --git a/tools/mkversion.pl b/tools/mkversion.pl
index 0d8b9de29..ea3b9940a 100644
--- a/tools/mkversion.pl
+++ b/tools/mkversion.pl
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ my $fullgitinfo = 'RRG/Iceman';
 my $ctime;
 # GIT status  0 = dirty,  1 = clean ,  2 = undecided
 my $clean = 2;
-
+my $undecided = (defined $ARGV[0]) && ($ARGV[0] =~ '--undecided');
 # Do we have acces to git command?
 #######
 # solves some bug on macos i.e:
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ if ( defined($commandGIT) )  {
     # now avoiding the "fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything." error by fallbacking to abbrev hash in such case
     my $gitversion = `git describe --dirty --always`;
     my $gitbranch = `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`;
-    $clean = $gitversion =~ '-dirty' ? 0 : 1;
-
+    if (not $undecided) {
+      $clean = $gitversion =~ '-dirty' ? 0 : 1;
+    }
     if ( defined($gitbranch) and defined($gitversion) ) {
         $fullgitinfo =  $fullgitinfo.'/'. $gitbranch . '/' . $gitversion;
 
diff --git a/tools/mkversion.sh b/tools/mkversion.sh
index cc713d635..850ef2101 100755
--- a/tools/mkversion.sh
+++ b/tools/mkversion.sh
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ if [ "$commandGIT" != "" ]; then
     # now avoiding the "fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything." error by fallbacking to abbrev hash in such case
     gitversion=$(git describe --dirty --always)
     gitbranch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
-    if [ "$gitversion" != "${gitversion%-dirty}" ]; then
-        clean=0
-    else
-        clean=1
+    if [ "$1" != "--undecided" ]; then
+        if [ "$gitversion" != "${gitversion%-dirty}" ]; then
+            clean=0
+        else
+            clean=1
+        fi
     fi
     if [ "$gitbranch" != "" ] && [ "$gitversion" != "" ]; then
         fullgitinfo="${fullgitinfo}/${gitbranch}/${gitversion}"