Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Feb 9, 2007, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20070209232750.GE10484@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0702091229qfa0a3bcyae40b5e7ff70262b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:29:16PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:

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> >Running refresh internally in runstatus without writing the
> >result out _might_ be an option, but that would largely be
> >a hack to only help qgit.
> 
> I might be overlooking something, but couldn't that updated index be
> saved elsewhere?  And subcommands be pointed at that, of course.

You should be able to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE environtment variable to point the index somewhere else than $GIT_DIR/index, so it's not located on a read-only filesystem. See the git(7) man page.

						- Ted

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