Remove the tree open check since it's now a presubmit script.

gcl.py

Index: gcl.py
diff --git a/gcl.py b/gcl.py
index 38899518c8df11e2cfeeb9ede2e2c15306ab87d9..f5605955cc870b4b28ed629586fb3261d12d5723 100755
--- a/gcl.py
+++ b/gcl.py
@@ -187,15 +187,6 @@ def GetCodeReviewSetting(key):
   return CODEREVIEW_SETTINGS.get(key, "")
 
 
-def IsTreeOpen():
-  """Fetches the tree status and returns either True or False."""
-  url = GetCodeReviewSetting('STATUS')
-  status = ""
-  if url:
-    status = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
-  return status.find('0') == -1
-
-
 def Warn(msg):
   ErrorExit(msg, exit=False)
 
@@ -607,7 +598,7 @@ Basic commands:
                           [--send_mail] [--no_try] [--no_presubmit]
       Uploads the changelist to the server for review.
 
-   gcl commit change_name [--no_presubmit] [--force]
+   gcl commit change_name [--no_presubmit]
       Commits the changelist to the repository.
 
    gcl lint change_name
@@ -873,12 +864,6 @@ def Commit(change_info, args):
   else:
     args.remove("--no_presubmit")
 
-  no_tree_status_check = ("--force" in args or "-f" in args)
-  if not no_tree_status_check and not IsTreeOpen():
-    print ("Error: The tree is closed. Try again later or use --force to force"
-           " the commit. May the --force be with you.")
-    return
-
   commit_cmd = ["svn", "commit", "--non-recursive"]
   filename = ''
   if change_info.issue: