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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 13:53:44 -0500 (EST)
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  (0) Do nothing.
> 
>  (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.

And don't get me wrong.  I think that for 1.5.0 you should really do (0).


Nicolas