From: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:30:30 GMT
Subject: Re: git status always modifies index?
Message-ID: <20171122153028.olssotkcf3dd6ron@LykOS.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <a039d139-dba5-683e-afbf-4044cd32ab1d@neulinger.org>

Hi Nathan.

Do you mean git-status writing an index file? What would you suggest for
git-status to compute which files have changed without modifying an
index-file? Or are you suggesting git-status to fail if the index file
doesn't belong to the user-id who invoked the command...

Thanks,
-Santiago