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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when
 contents are unchanged
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:45:54 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> >
> >>> "git-status $args" on the other hand is a preview of "what would
> >>> happen if I say 'git-commit $args'", and in order to compute
> >>> that, you would fundamentally need to be able to write into the
> >>> object store.  In a special case of giving empty $args it can be
> >>> read-only.
> >>
> >> Can you give an example where it _could_ not be read-only?
> >
> > Think of what "git commit -a" would have to do.
> 
> I don't know whether it was a typo, but we're not talking about
> "commit", but "status".

No typo.  "git status" is literally "git commit --dry-run".  Why?  Because 
people expected it to be called "git status".

And even if I think about it over and over again, it makes sense.

Ciao,
Dscho