From: Marco Costalba Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:35:44 GMT Subject: Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vveiaj7y5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 2/10/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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.