Mercurial temporary file nomenclature

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 19:58, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> I had a crazy, crazy idea this morning: Mercurial should put all its
> temporary files in its very own .hg directory.  I mean, it already has its
> own directory, and unless some jackass did something crazy it's going to be
> on the same mount as the repository as a whole.  Mercurial could even use
> ".hg/tmp/" if it wanted to keep its .hg directory neat and tidy.
>
> I think the temporary directory should also be specifiable as an option, in
> case some nut runs hg on a readonly mount.  But I admit I don't have that
> problem.

I said the same thing, but apparently it's a check for writability, so
that doesn't really solve the problem.

Cheers,

Dirkajn