From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:47:06 GMT
Subject: Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp
Message-ID: <81b0412b0601050847h1dcd5e81sd5eef3f03df6d1de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43BD4B73.7010000@zytor.com>

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.