From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:25:04 GMT
Subject: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
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