From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:42:35 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr5s5y8n8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1257904149-44381-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> <4AFA368F.207@vilain.net> <20091111040715.GA44672@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sam Vilain , paulus@samba.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: David Aguilar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 11 17:27:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8G2f-0005JN-1Q for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757113AbZKKQ1W (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755614AbZKKQ1W (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:22 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:60621 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753918AbZKKQ1V (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:21 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A16D59A4EF; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:27 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=t+559NSMKX/Alx3bXh/aH9ia0kQ=; b=fAfpzx Hze8HvLwXujg6tZzIyAk9XLSaSMPgEPR7NBS0rv/EFoLLmEjsGmQkqjs+/PhR4e+ njboMjoTetgDeAvIE7HObeNKowbWLroJPiNRGm6GMcRigYOVr8pCmr+R7S0XeUIW 8zkIROhkqsKMqeUo+HT37bF5Vouo3tmQwZQeE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=VbmtOlISnbIyBfKU3z3OVflWVrw6aaCc N5d3Y6tKObNGApT0Hse2ZfDO+PTb8F83Qo/DGIWW/30X248nTMjfhulb4A4TFlsj 1BQ8Imq3NCWmlMwG1yx4Ow8OG5/bu8vXzBzNqER5/X4oU0LaQ609rFgc2uUJDP1z CiCQOwS3eJY= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6373C9A4DC; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 760FA9BF04; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:42:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20091111040715.GA44672@gmail.com> (David Aguilar's message of "Tue\, 10 Nov 2009 20\:07\:16 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 176AE208-CEDF-11DE-9DDE-B888BBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Aguilar writes: > That said, if there's a consensus that the path doesn't matter > much than we could change the behavior. I was just trying to be > careful. If we are not honoring GITK_TMPDIR and suddenly start paying attention to it, that already is a change in behaviour. Why is it better than paying attention to TMPDIR? But why does gitk, which is primarily a read-only history browsing tool (yes, I know it can do "checkout" and stuff), needs to write anything to anywhere in the first place?