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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>,
	GIT list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:27:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070209232750.GE10484@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0702091229qfa0a3bcyae40b5e7ff70262b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:29:16PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >Running refresh internally in runstatus without writing the
> >result out _might_ be an option, but that would largely be
> >a hack to only help qgit.
> 
> I might be overlooking something, but couldn't that updated index be
> saved elsewhere?  And subcommands be pointed at that, of course.

You should be able to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE environtment variable to
point the index somewhere else than $GIT_DIR/index, so it's not
located on a read-only filesystem.  See the git(7) man page.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09 19:25 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly Marco Costalba
2007-02-09 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 20:19   ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-09 20:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-09 20:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-09 20:29     ` Morten Welinder
2007-02-09 23:27       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-02-09 20:35     ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-09 20:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-10  0:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10  0:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10  2:51             ` [PATCH 1/2] run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10  8:02               ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10  8:20                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10  8:29                   ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10  8:46                     ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 10:40                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 11:25                         ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 15:13                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 15:51                             ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10  2:51             ` [PATCH 2/2] git-runstatus --refresh Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 14:19 ` 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-10 14:31   ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 14:41     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-10 14:48       ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 14:51         ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 16:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 20:36             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 21:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-11 22:09                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 22:28                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-11 22:30                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-11 23:24                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-10 14:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-10 15:45           ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 15:54           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-10 16:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 16:40               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-10 16:46                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 17:03                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-10 18:00                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 18:43                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-10 18:53                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-10 18:56                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-10 19:08                         ` Marco Costalba
2007-02-10 17:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-10 18:51                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-11  6:33                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-11  7:23                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-10 20:40             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-10 16:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-10 16:35             ` Marco Costalba

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