From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:38:11 GMT
Subject: Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp
Message-ID: <43BD4B73.7010000@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601050352n386505bfjd40e515809e3c862@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> Not every system (will not one microsoft windows system) have /var/tmp,
> whereas using GIT_DIR for random temporary files is more or less established.

Depends on what you're doing.  Only if you're writing to the repository.

Windows will usually have $TMP and/or $TEMP, a lot of Unix apps honour 
$TMP_DIR.

	-hpa