Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: catch mkdtemp errors

From: David Aguilar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:05:40 -0700

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 01:42:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Aguilar <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > 105b5d3fbb1c00bb0aeaf9d3e0fbe26a7b1993fc introduced a dependency
> > on mkdtemp, which is not available on Windows.
> >
> > Use the original temporary directory behavior when mkdtemp fails.
> > This makes the code use mkdtemp when available and gracefully
> > fallback to the existing behavior when it is not available.
> >
> > Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
> > Helped-by: brian m. carlson <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> 
> Does this still need to be applied before I can pull from Paulus?

Yes, it would be nice to have this, especially for Windows users.
-- 
David