Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move git send-email cover letter temporary file to $GIT_DIR

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:52:09 -0800

"David Symonds" <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Dec 22, 2007 5:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> "David Symonds" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> > On Dec 22, 2007 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >> Don't you have $repo (an instance of Git) at that point?  You
>> >> should be able to ask repo_path() about it, shouldn't you?
>> >
>> > Isn't git-send-email still useful outside a Git repo?
>>
>> Then why does it run "rev-parse --git-dir"?
>
> I'm suggesting that it should still function just fine without being
> inside a repo, so it should adequately handle "rev-parse --git-dir"
> returning 128.

Ah, true.  Then the current behaviour to use the $(pwd) for
temporary file area would be Ok for now.