From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:59:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory
Message-ID: <4AFA368F.207@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <1257904149-44381-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

David Aguilar wrote:
> gitk fails to show diffs when browsing a repository for which
> we have read-only access.  This is due to gitk's assumption
> that the current directory is always writable.
>
> This teaches gitk to honor the GITK_TMPDIR environment
> variable.  This allows users to override the default location
> used for writing temporary files.
>   

Is there a good reason not to use the common TMPDIR or TMP environment
variables for this?

Sam