From: Jon Nelson Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:49:36 GMT Subject: Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Alex Riesen 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. > > 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. > > 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. Do you still need write access to $GIT_DIR if $GIT_INDEX_FILE is set to some place outside of $GIT_DIR? -- Jon Nelson