From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:42:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tests: allow user to specify trash directory location
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908091941550.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200908091533.40227.j6t@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> On Sonntag, 9. August 2009, Jeff King wrote:
> > There is a test below for absolute versus relative path in the root
> > provided.  Do we need some extra magic to make it work on non-Unix
> > platforms?
> 
> Not for Windows. Those devolpers who want to use an absolute path can use the 
> POSIX path notation:
> 
>    GIT_TEST_OPTS=--root=/c/temp/gittests
> 
> This works in t4014.

But I am not aware of any reasonable tmpfs equivalent on Windows.  Are 
you?  I would be _very_ interested.

Ciao,
Dscho