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Re: git: problems in read-only trees

From
HEHolger Eitzenberger <holger@my-eitzenberger.de>
Date
Aug 4, 2005, 20:38 UTC
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<42F27CCC.5050103@my-eitzenberger.de>
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<20050804201125.GB24479@pasky.ji.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
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>>-> 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?

I do not know about the first message (cachefile), but the 2nd one is trivial to fix. I implemented a function called git_mkstemp() (path.c and so in libgit) which places the tmpfiles in $TMPDIR and if it's not set in /tmp. The is close to what other programs do.

There are other references to mkstemp() in git where one or two of them may use git_mkstemp() instead, but not in sha1_file.c, since it hardlinks it later on.

/holger
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  1. Wolfgang DenkAug 3, 2005
  2. git: problems in read-only treesPetr Baudis, Aug 4, 2005
  3. Holger EitzenbergerAug 4, 2005

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