From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:38:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BD4B73.7010000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601050352n386505bfjd40e515809e3c862@mail.gmail.com>
Alex Riesen 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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 11:52 use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp Alex Riesen
2006-01-05 16:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-05 16:47 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-05 17:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-05 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 16:49 ` Jon Nelson
2006-01-06 9:32 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-06 10:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
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