Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> >
> >>> "git-status $args" on the other hand is a preview of "what would
> >>> happen if I say 'git-commit $args'", and in order to compute
> >>> that, you would fundamentally need to be able to write into the
> >>> object store.  In a special case of giving empty $args it can be
> >>> read-only.
> >>
> >> Can you give an example where it _could_ not be read-only?
> >
> > Think of what "git commit -a" would have to do.
> 
> I don't know whether it was a typo, but we're not talking about
> "commit", but "status".