'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2007, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550702091125j202620cfqb2450a3ee69ed421@mail.gmail.com>

In a repository under a mounted Windows directory (ntfs) I get this error:

$ git status fatal: unable to create '.git/index.lock': Read-only file system $

Is this correct? there exist a workaround? 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.

All other commands commonly used to browse a repository seems to work well, without pretending to write stuff.

Thanks Marco

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