From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:07:59 -0800 Message-ID: <43BD526F.2040300@zytor.com> References: <81b0412b0601050352n386505bfjd40e515809e3c862@mail.gmail.com> <43BD4B73.7010000@zytor.com> <81b0412b0601050847h1dcd5e81sd5eef3f03df6d1de@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 05 18:09:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuYb5-0001Od-IQ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:08:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbWAERIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:08:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751171AbWAERIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:08:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:32641 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751058AbWAERIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:08:14 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k05H7xDr010109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:08:00 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Alex Riesen In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601050847h1dcd5e81sd5eef3f03df6d1de@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen wrote: > On 1/5/06, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>>Not every system (will not one microsoft windows system) have /var/tmp, >>>whereas using GIT_DIR for random temporary files is more or less established. >> >>Depends on what you're doing. Only if you're writing to the repository. >> >>Windows will usually have $TMP and/or $TEMP, a lot of Unix apps honour >>$TMP_DIR. > > > Well, it never had TMP/TEMP by default for me (though I'd expect from people > installing git to set the thing properly), and it is usually undefined > everywhere else. Well, for me it's set to TEMP=C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp (except it's all in 8.3-mangled form)... and I sure as Hades didn't set it. This in on XP SP2. "Local Settings" is a hidden directory which seems to have stuff like the Internet Exploder cache in it. -hpa