From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:11:25 GMT Subject: git: problems in read-only trees Message-ID: <20050804201125.GB24479@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050803074241.A2D1D3535F9@atlas.denx.de> Dear diary, on Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:42:41AM CEST, I got a letter where Wolfgang Denk told me that... > Hello, > > sometimes I have to work in trees for which I have only read > permissions; cogito has problems then - for example: > > -> cg-diff > fatal: unable to create new cachefile > fatal: unable to create temp-file > > It would be nice if there was at least a way to specify some TMPDIR > instead of the current directory in such a situation. This is a bug in git-diff-* (producing the second error message; the first error message means failed git-update-cache --refresh but that isn't fatal). Any reason why prep_temp_blob() works in . instead of $TMPDIR? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox