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Re: Destructive side-effect of "cg-status"

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 1, 2005, 10:24 UTC
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<46a038f90510010324h65bea422tf9a519a014ed4844@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/1/05, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> So far I  thought  "cg-status"  is  a  harmless  command  which  just
> displays  some  status information. It ain't so. One of our engineers
> reported a  corrupted  repository  after  I  ran  "cg-status"  in  his
> directory:

Interesting... cg-status, and sometimes cg-diff, have to update the index. The index is the trick behind git's performance (and some other smarts). It's never really touched by Cogito, but by the git-*-index commands.

Perhaps git-*-index commands should check ownership vs current uid and print a warning?

cheers,
martin
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  2. Martin LanghoffOct 1, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2005
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  7. Matthias UrlichsOct 2, 2005
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  9. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2005
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  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 3, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinOct 3, 2005
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  17. Wolfgang DenkOct 1, 2005
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