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This Pull Request is supposed to address git-for-windows/git#143. The feature implemented here is a bit different from the way it was in MSys1: it does not show up in the list when calling |
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In the context of Git for Windows, the MSys2 root lives inside %PROGRAMFILES% which is typically write-protected for mere mortals' user accounts. In particular for /tmp/, this is a problem, because many scripts assume that writing to /tmp/ is fair game. MSys1 used to mount /tmp/ automatically, pointing to the current user's temporary directory. Let's recreate that functionality in a slightly different way: we now interpret the filesystem type "usertemp" in the /etc/fstab file. To make /tmp/ point to the temporary directory of the current user, as per the %TMP% environment variable, just add this line to /etc/fstab: none /tmp usertemp binary,posix=0 0 0 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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We just introduced the `usertemp` file system type to mount the temporary directory to which the environment variable `TMP` points: git-for-windows/msys2-runtime#9 Let's make good use of it! Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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In the context of Git for Windows, the MSys2 root lives inside
%PROGRAMFILES% which is typically write-protected for mere mortals' user
accounts. In particular for /tmp/, this is a problem, because many
scripts assume that writing to /tmp/ is fair game.
MSys1 used to mount /tmp/ automatically, pointing to the current user's
temporary directory.
Let's recreate that functionality in a slightly different way: we now
interpret the filesystem type "usertemp" in the /etc/fstab file. To make
/tmp/ point to the temporary directory of the current user, as per the
%TEMP% environment variable, just add this line to /etc/fstab:
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin johannes.schindelin@gmx.de