From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:19:59 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702101517360.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550702091125j202620cfqb2450a3ee69ed421@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> I just need to know if current working directory is clean and report 
> back to qgit user, so read-only access would be ok for me.

So, why don't you just do a

	git diff --name-only HEAD

and check for an empty output???

No need for a patch to Git (so late in the -rc phase), or backwards 
incompatibility...

Ciao,
Dscho