Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-06 03:47:06
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.
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