Why git describe does not give me dirty suffix when untracked file existed?

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git status show me some untracked files. But git describe did not give me dirty flag. Why?

user@host:~$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 16 commits.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
user@host:~$ git describe --dirty --tags
v0.3-4-3-geadf778
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--dirty looks for uncommitted modifications on tracked files ; untracked files are completely ignored.

If you want to make git "aware" of extra files, you can use git add file1 file2 ... or git add --intent-to-add file1 file2 ...

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