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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:27 -0500 (EST)
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> So, what is the big problem about accepting that patching git-status for 
> one obscure use is wrong, wrong, wrong, when git-diff already does what is 
> needed???

Because git-status itself is conceptually a read-only operation, and 
having it barf on a read-only file system is justifiably a bug.

But I agree that attempting to fix it now is probably just too risky not 
to compromize the 1.5.0 release.  Better leave it as a known issue for 
v1.5.0 and fix it later... especially if there is a possible workaround 
in the mean time.


Nicolas