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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] difftool: don't overwrite modified files
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:34:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130326193419.GK2286@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5151702C.9060502@viscovery.net>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:53:48AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 3/26/2013 10:31, schrieb John Keeping:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:38:42AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > The last test does result in /tmp filling up with temporary directories
> > though, it would be good if the test could clean up after itself.  The
> > best I can come up with is adding something like this immediately after
> > running difftool but I'm not entirely happy with the ".." in the
> > argument to rm:
> > 
> > 	test_when_finished rm -rf "$(cat tmpdir)/.."
> 
> Wrap the test in
> 
> 	(
> 		TMPDIR=$TRASH_DIRECTORY &&
> 		export TMPDIR &&
> 	...
> 	)
> 
> It works for me.

Nice.  I've reviewed File::Spec and it looks like that TMPDIR takes
priority on every operating system except VMS, and I don't think we care
about that.

Unless Junio says otherwise, I'll hold off sending this until difftool
calms down a bit to avoid too many conflicted merges.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21  4:03 [PATCH v3 1/4] difftool: silence uninitialized variable warning David Aguilar
2013-02-21  4:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] t7800: update copyright notice David Aguilar
2013-02-21  4:03   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] t7800: modernize tests David Aguilar
2013-02-21  4:03     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] t7800: "defaults" is no longer a builtin tool name David Aguilar
2013-02-21  4:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-21  5:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-21 23:31         ` David Aguilar
2013-03-20  9:48     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] t7800: modernize tests Johannes Sixt
2013-03-20 22:59       ` David Aguilar
2013-03-21  7:41         ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-22  7:13           ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-22 10:00             ` John Keeping
2013-03-22 11:14               ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-22 11:53                 ` John Keeping
2013-03-22 19:36                   ` [PATCH 0/3] Improve difftool --dir-diff tests John Keeping
2013-03-22 19:36                     ` [PATCH 1/3] t7800: don't hide grep output John Keeping
2013-03-22 22:32                       ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-22 22:45                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-22 19:36                     ` [PATCH 2/3] t7800: fix tests when difftool uses --no-symlinks John Keeping
2013-03-22 22:27                       ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-22 22:53                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-22 23:05                         ` John Keeping
2013-03-23  3:24                           ` David Aguilar
2013-03-22 19:36                     ` [PATCH 3/3] t7800: run --dir-diff tests with and without symlinks John Keeping
2013-03-22 21:05                       ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] " John Keeping
2013-03-23 13:31                     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] difftool --dir-diff test improvements John Keeping
2013-03-23 13:31                       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] t7800: don't hide grep output John Keeping
2013-03-23 13:31                       ` [PATCH v2 2/3] t7800: fix tests when difftool uses --no-symlinks John Keeping
2013-03-24  5:19                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-24 12:36                           ` John Keeping
2013-03-24 13:31                             ` Matt McClure
2013-03-24 15:15                               ` John Keeping
2013-03-25  7:41                                 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-25 10:42                                   ` John Keeping
2013-03-25 21:44                                     ` [PATCH v2] difftool: don't overwrite modified files John Keeping
2013-03-26  8:38                                       ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-26  8:47                                         ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-26  9:31                                         ` John Keeping
2013-03-26  9:53                                           ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-26 19:34                                             ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-03-26 20:52                                       ` Matt McClure
2013-03-26 21:01                                         ` John Keeping
2013-03-25 16:15                                   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] t7800: fix tests when difftool uses --no-symlinks Junio C Hamano
2013-03-24 21:29                             ` David Aguilar
2013-03-25 10:57                               ` John Keeping
2013-03-25 14:54                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-24 13:24                           ` Matt McClure
2013-03-24  6:20                         ` Eric Sunshine
2013-03-23 13:31                       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] t7800: run --dir-diff tests with and without symlinks John Keeping
2013-03-25  7:26                         ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-25 10:35                           ` John Keeping
2013-03-25 10:59                             ` Johannes Sixt
2013-03-25 11:02                               ` John Keeping
2013-03-25 21:50                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-26  9:22                                 ` John Keeping

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