Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp

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> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Note that in this case it might be appropriate, but in general you should 
> be careful. You may want to access a git directory without actually having 
> write permissions to it. 
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> Of course, for "git reset" that's not an issue (since it needs write 
> permissions anyway), but just in general.. git programs mostly use pipes 
> to communicate, and temporary files are pretty rare, so we hopefully don't 
> have that issue much, but let's make sure that things that just look at a 
> repository can work even with a read-only repo.