Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add ability to define an alternate temporary directory

From: Sam Vilain <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:11 +1300

David Aguilar wrote:
> gitk fails to show diffs when browsing a repository for which
> we have read-only access.  This is due to gitk's assumption
> that the current directory is always writable.
>
> This teaches gitk to honor the GITK_TMPDIR environment
> variable.  This allows users to override the default location
> used for writing temporary files.
>   

Is there a good reason not to use the common TMPDIR or TMP environment
variables for this?

Sam