On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:06:17AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Today, git status played violin on my nerves for the very last time. > There is no good reason, really none, for git status to require > write permissions. If the index is not up-to-date, so be it, I > cannot commit anyway. I agree it is annoying, but this patch does not apply (and is no longer needed) on master since the status-is-no-longer-commit-dry-run series has been merged. I don't know if it is worth putting your fix onto maint. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html