Re: use GIT_DIR instead of /var/tmp

On 1/5/06, H. Peter Anvin [off-list ref] 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.

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.