Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2007, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550702100835x6d5c0d40y42b3fe0f50f78fd7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vveiaj7y5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2/10/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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>
> But when they ask "git status", they care more about the real
> change, and at that point (since they feel they may be ready to
> make a commit -- and that is the whole point of running
> "git-status") they do want to lose the cache cleanliness
> information.  So "git-status" to be read-write application to
> discard the cache-cleanliness information is probably a good
> thing.
>

The "let's see what I'm going to commit today" it's definitely the way I and probably most of qgit users look at the status info shown in main view left bottom pane and also in commit dialog.

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