Hi Peff, On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 02:09:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > - git am, when splitting mails (git-am correctly cleans up its > > directory after finishing, so there is no need to share those files > > between users) > > > > - git apply, when writing rejected hunks > > > > - git fsck, when writing lost&found blobs > > For these latter two, I had to ask myself "why not?". You gave such nice > reasons for the other items in the list, I wondered what your reasoning > was here. My bad. My reading on both rejected hunks and lost & found blobs is that the files should be cleaned up by the user who generated them. And if another user can interfere with that cleaning up, that is bad. So I left them non-shared to avoid such an interference. > I also wondered why we do not do the usual write-to-temp and rename in > some of these cases, but that is not really relevant to your patch. Oh yeah, I'd love to stop here (I already extended this rather simple one-line patch to something vastly larger, and that was not my intention). Ciao, Dscho -- 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