{"thread":{"id":"37741","subject":"FEAUTRE-REQUEST: upon git difftool, files which cannot be modified (persistently) should be made read only","startedAt":"2014-10-16T02:45:23Z","lastAt":"2014-10-16T02:45:23Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christoph Anton Mitterer"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"250742","messageId":"1413427523.4706.40.camel@gmail.com","threadId":"37741","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"FEAUTRE-REQUEST: upon git difftool, files which cannot be modified (persistently) should be made read only","fromName":"Christoph Anton Mitterer","fromEmail":"calestyo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2014-10-16T02:45:23Z","receivedAt":"2014-10-16T02:45:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"calestyo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi.\n\nApparently since a while, git difftool has the awseome feature,\nthat it just symlinks the files to the working copy, if a diff with\nthat is requested.\n\ne.g. something like:\ngit difftool -d\nwill have \n/tmp/git-difftool.TWYTA\n\ncreated with subdirs\n\nleft:\n-rw-r--r-- 1 user     user      45k Oct 16 04:33 file\n\nright: \nlrwxrwxrwx 1 calestyo calestyo   52 Oct 16 04:33 file -> /home/user/foo/file\n\nWhen one edits and saves this in one's favourite difftool,... it\nactually gets into the working copy.\n\nBut of course saving the left (in this example) has no effect, so it\nwould be nice if all these files were marked readonly, so that one\nalready sees in the difftool \"changes here are useless\".\n\n\nCheers,\nChris.\n"}]}