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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: t7610-mergetool.sh test failure
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 01:00:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160527050054.GA25774@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160527044027.GA26143@gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-27  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-24 16:44 t7610-mergetool.sh test failure Armin Kunaschik
2016-05-24 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-24 16:53   ` Armin Kunaschik
2016-05-25 23:16   ` Jeff King
2016-05-26  1:51     ` Jeff King
2016-05-27  4:40       ` David Aguilar
2016-05-27  5:00         ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-05-27  6:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-27 18:24             ` Jeff King
2016-05-27 19:58               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-27 20:01                 ` Jeff King
2016-06-22 16:53                   ` Armin Kunaschik
2016-06-22 17:12                     ` Jeff King

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