git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.

This makes git-status work semi-decently in a read-only
repository.  Earlier, the command simply died with "cannot lock
the index file" before giving any useful information to the
user.

Because index won't be updated in a read-only repository,
stat-dirty paths appear in the "Changed but not updated" list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index ec506d956..cfa15110f 100755
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ git-rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1 || initial_commit=t
 case "$0" in
 *status)
 	status_only=t
-	unmerged_ok_if_status=--unmerged ;;
+	;;
 *commit)
 	status_only=
-	unmerged_ok_if_status= ;;
+	;;
 esac
 
 refuse_partial () {
@@ -389,16 +389,17 @@ else
 	USE_INDEX="$THIS_INDEX"
 fi
 
-GIT_INDEX_FILE="$USE_INDEX" \
-	git-update-index -q $unmerged_ok_if_status --refresh || exit
-
-################################################################
-# If the request is status, just show it and exit.
-
-case "$0" in
-*status)
+case "$status_only" in
+t)
+	# This will silently fail in a read-only repository, which is
+	# what we want.
+	GIT_INDEX_FILE="$USE_INDEX" git-update-index -q --unmerged --refresh
 	run_status
 	exit $?
+	;;
+'')
+	GIT_INDEX_FILE="$USE_INDEX" git-update-index -q --refresh || exit
+	;;
 esac
 
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