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Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:40:57 +0100
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On 3/4/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>
> * jc/status (Thu Feb 22 02:07:56 2007 -0800) 2 commits
>  - git-status: use in-core --refresh in a read-only repository.
>  - git-runstatus --refresh
>
> These two were done for the specific purpose of helping qgit,
> but I haven't heard about them, so they are on hold.  If they
> are not needed by qgit nor people who like to run git-status in
> a read-only repository, I do not see any reason to keep them.
>

Currently they are not needed by qgit. Probably neither in the future.
It is better to keep working dir view disabled if in a read-only repo
then wait for a sloooow command to return incorrect data (BTW _all_
repo files are always marked as 'modified' due to an issue with
different implementations of lstat in cygwin and ntfs kernel driver).