status: don't require the repository to be writable

We need to update the index before hooks run when actually making a
commit, but we shouldn't have to write the index when running "status".
If we can, then we have already spent cycles to refresh the index and
it is a waste not to write it out, but it is not a disaster if we cannot
write it out.  The main reason the user is running "git status" is to get
the "status", and refreshing the index is a mere side effect that we can
do without.

Discovery and initial attempted fix by Dscho.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Junio C Hamano 2010-01-19 17:10:35 -08:00
parent 6329bade66
commit ab6854515e

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@ -278,11 +278,13 @@ 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);
fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, !is_status);
refresh_cache(refresh_flags);
if (write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
commit_locked_index(&index_lock))
die("unable to write new_index file");
if (0 <= fd) {
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();
}