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

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:00:37AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  (1) We keep the current "git-status [-v] [-a] [[-i|-o] <paths...>]"
>      command line and do the necessary index manipulation
>      in-core without writing it out (see git-commit.sh for
>      details of what it involves).  
> 
>  (2) We drop the support for any command line parameter from
>      "git-status", apply my two patches for Marco to
>      "git-runstatus", and rename "git-runstatus" to
>      "git-status".
> 
> If I have to pick between the two, I would probably pick (2).
> While (1) would essentially mean doing "git-commit" entirely
> in-core without writing the index out until we really make the
> commit, which is a good thing in itself in the longer term, it
> is out of the question this late in the game for 1.5.0.

If you end up doing (2), may I suggest making the functionality of
"git-status" today available as "git-commit -n"?  It is something
useful, so we shouldn't lose it, and -n meaning --no-action is a well
accepted convention for Unix commands.

						- Ted