[PATCH] git status: do not require write permission
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:03
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
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. But in most cases, the index _is_ up-to-date, and now I can tell my fellow former users that their repository XYZ.git does not have any uncommitted changes, so can they please delete it to free up some disk space, thank you very much. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted> --- builtin-commit.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 55676fd..9eccc51 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c@@ -325,11 +325,13 @@ static char *prepare_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, int * We still need to refresh the index here. */ if (!pathspec || !*pathspec) { - fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 1); - refresh_cache_or_die(refresh_flags); - if (write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr) || - commit_locked_index(&index_lock)) - die("unable to write new_index file"); + fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 0); + if (fd >= 0) { + refresh_cache_or_die(refresh_flags); + if (write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr) || + commit_locked_index(&index_lock)) + die("unable to write new_index file"); + } commit_style = COMMIT_AS_IS; return get_index_file(); }
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