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
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