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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Cc: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	"J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why /var/cache/git?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:30:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viq0ohknn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026152218.3931.qmail@d862ae2b10e11a.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (Gerrit Pape's message of "Tue\, 26 Oct 2010 15\:22\:18 +0000")

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> Hi, it's also not my preference, but Debian adheres to the FHS.
> Unfortunately /var/git is not allowed by the FHS, so a different
> location must be chosen for Debian.

It seems that /var/lib/ seems to be more appropriate place to store
persistent database-y stuff. I see e.g. /var/lib/postgresql there.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 10:30 Why /var/cache/git? Bron Gondwana
2010-10-25 15:24 ` J.H.
2010-10-26  1:22   ` Bron Gondwana
2010-10-26 13:21     ` Drew Northup
2010-10-26 15:22       ` Gerrit Pape
2010-10-26 16:47         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-26 18:30         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-10-28 15:53           ` Gerrit Pape
2010-10-26 20:58         ` Bron Gondwana

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