From: Marco Costalba Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:40:57 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7itx5mep.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 3/4/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > * jc/status (Thu Feb 22 02:07:56 2007 -0800) 2 commits > - git-status: use in-core --refresh in a read-only repository. > - git-runstatus --refresh > > These two were done for the specific purpose of helping qgit, > but I haven't heard about them, so they are on hold. If they > are not needed by qgit nor people who like to run git-status in > a read-only repository, I do not see any reason to keep them. > Currently they are not needed by qgit. Probably neither in the future. It is better to keep working dir view disabled if in a read-only repo then wait for a sloooow command to return incorrect data (BTW _all_ repo files are always marked as 'modified' due to an issue with different implementations of lstat in cygwin and ntfs kernel driver).