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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 10, 2007, 16:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6syj7uw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702101049480.1757@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> So, what is the big problem about accepting that patching git-status for 
>> one obscure use is wrong, wrong, wrong, when git-diff already does what is 
>> needed???
>
> Because git-status itself is conceptually a read-only operation, and 
> having it barf on a read-only file system is justifiably a bug.

I do not 100% agree that it is conceptually a read-only operation.

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