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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 09:07:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BD526F.2040300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601050847h1dcd5e81sd5eef3f03df6d1de@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 1/5/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 17:08 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
2006-01-05 16:47   ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-05 17:07     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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