>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have a directive which is a mover list.
>>
>>Normally when I select items in either of the lists the control marks itself as dirty. I am wondering if this is the normal behavior and by design?
>
>I would have thought 'by design' - what other behaviour would you expect ?
>
>>I added a new property keepPristine. I'm wondering if I should explicitly re-set the control's dirty state in ng-change event of both lists?
>>
>>Adding this code
>>
>>

>> $scope.onChanged = function (assigned) {
>>                    $scope.selectedItem = assigned[0];
>>                    if ($scope.keepPristine)
>>                    {
>>                        $scope.form.assignedList.$pristine = true;
>>                        $scope.form.unAssignedList.$pristine = true;
>>                    }
>>                }

>>
>>does not help :( My select list still shows ng-dirty flag when I examine it using Inspect option.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Will this help : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28721959/angular-1-2-is-it-possible-to-exclude-an-input-on-form-dirty-checking

Yes, I'll try using our existing directive no-dirty-check and incorporate it directly into the 2 select controls we have in that directive, e.g. I add to the selects

no-dirty-check=keepPristine

I'll play with it and let you know.