In a repository under a mounted Windows directory (ntfs) I get this error: $ git status fatal: unable to create '.git/index.lock': Read-only file system $ Is this correct? there exist a workaround? I just need to know if current working directory is clean and report back to qgit user, so read-only access would be ok for me. All other commands commonly used to browse a repository seems to work well, without pretending to write stuff. Thanks Marco - 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