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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:11 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFA368F.207@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257904149-44381-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

David Aguilar wrote:
> gitk fails to show diffs when browsing a repository for which
> we have read-only access.  This is due to gitk's assumption
> that the current directory is always writable.
>
> This teaches gitk to honor the GITK_TMPDIR environment
> variable.  This allows users to override the default location
> used for writing temporary files.
>   

Is there a good reason not to use the common TMPDIR or TMP environment
variables for this?

Sam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11  1:49 [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory David Aguilar
2009-11-11  1:49 ` [PATCH] gitk: Document the $GITK_TMPDIR variable David Aguilar
2009-11-11  3:59 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2009-11-11  4:07   ` [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory David Aguilar
2009-11-11  4:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-11 16:44       ` David Aguilar
2009-11-12  8:35         ` Jeff King
2009-11-12  9:36           ` David Aguilar
2009-11-12  9:56             ` Jeff King

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