From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:38:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git status: do not require write permission
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001200138030.3164@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001200134380.3164@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:06:17AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > Today, git status played violin on my nerves for the very last time.
> > > There is no good reason, really none, for git status to require
> > > write permissions.  If the index is not up-to-date, so be it, I
> > > cannot commit anyway.
> > 
> > I agree it is annoying, but this patch does not apply (and is no longer
> > needed) on master since the status-is-no-longer-commit-dry-run series
> > has been merged.
> 
> I was working on top of 'next'.  And only after I fetched afresh from 
> git://repo.or.cz/git.git/.

To be precise, the commit I based mine on is 
2cd0ddca4b6f2ff24fcd7b24030c97ec20ead85c which was done on Mon Jan 18 
18:34:16 2010 -0800 according to Git.

Ciao,
Dscho "who will think 3 times before making a patch next time"