On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:40:27PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote: > > BTW, one thing I happened to note while looking at this: running the > > test script will write into /tmp (or wherever your $TMPDIR points). > > Probably not a big deal, but I wonder if we should be setting $TMPDIR in > > our test harness. > > We already set $HOME and various other variables to carefully > tune the testsuite's behavior, so this sounds like a good idea > IMO. > > Would there be any downsides to setting $TMPDIR equal to the > trash directory? The only one I can think of is that if something leaves cruft in $TMPDIR, it could affect later tests that want to `git add` indiscriminately. It seems unlikely. OTOH, I do not think putting things in /tmp is hurting anything. I was mostly just surprised by it. -Peff -- 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