David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > That said, if there's a consensus that the path doesn't matter > much than we could change the behavior. I was just trying to be > careful. If we are not honoring GITK_TMPDIR and suddenly start paying attention to it, that already is a change in behaviour. Why is it better than paying attention to TMPDIR? But why does gitk, which is primarily a read-only history browsing tool (yes, I know it can do "checkout" and stuff), needs to write anything to anywhere in the first place? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html