Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> So, what is the big problem about accepting that patching git-status for >> one obscure use is wrong, wrong, wrong, when git-diff already does what is >> needed??? > > Because git-status itself is conceptually a read-only operation, and > having it barf on a read-only file system is justifiably a bug. I do not 100% agree that it is conceptually a read-only operation. - 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