Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jan 5, 2006, 17:07 UTC
Message-ID: <43BD526F.2040300@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601050847h1dcd5e81sd5eef3f03df6d1de@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 1/5/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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.
> 
> 
> Well, it never had TMP/TEMP by default for me (though I'd expect from people
> installing git to set the thing properly), and it is usually undefined
> everywhere else.

Well, for me it's set to

TEMP=C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp

(except it's all in 8.3-mangled form)... and I sure as Hades didn't set it. This in on XP SP2. "Local Settings" is a hidden directory which seems to have stuff like the Internet Exploder cache in it.

	-hpa