From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:42:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory
Message-ID: <7vr5s5y8n8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091111040715.GA44672@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> That said, if there's a consensus that the path doesn't matter
> much than we could change the behavior.  I was just trying to be
> careful.

If we are not honoring GITK_TMPDIR and suddenly start paying attention to
it, that already is a change in behaviour.  Why is it better than paying
attention to TMPDIR?

But why does gitk, which is primarily a read-only history browsing tool
(yes, I know it can do "checkout" and stuff), needs to write anything to
anywhere in the first place?