Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> (0) Do nothing.
>
> (1) We keep the current "git-status [-v] [-a] [[-i|-o] <paths...>]"
> command line and do the necessary index manipulation
> in-core without writing it out (see git-commit.sh for
> details of what it involves).
>
> (2) We drop the support for any command line parameter from
> "git-status", apply my two patches for Marco to
> "git-runstatus", and rename "git-runstatus" to
> "git-status".
>
> If I have to pick between the two, I would probably pick (2).
> While (1) would essentially mean doing "git-commit" entirely
> in-core without writing the index out until we really make the
> commit, which is a good thing in itself in the longer term, it
> is out of the question this late in the game for 1.5.0.
And don't get me wrong. I think that for 1.5.0 you should really do (0).
Nicolas