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Diffstat (limited to 'git/test/lib/helper.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | git/test/lib/helper.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/git/test/lib/helper.py b/git/test/lib/helper.py index 6c9f33c6..a0b8dc15 100644 --- a/git/test/lib/helper.py +++ b/git/test/lib/helper.py @@ -62,10 +62,14 @@ class StringProcessAdapter(object): def _mktemp(*args): - """Wrapper around default tempfile.mktemp to fix an osx issue""" + """Wrapper around default tempfile.mktemp to fix an osx issue + :note: the OSX special case was removed as it was unclear why that was needed in the first place. It seems + to be just fine without it. However, if we leave this special case, and if TMPDIR is set to something custom, + prefixing /private/ will lead to incorrect paths on OSX.""" tdir = tempfile.mktemp(*args) - if sys.platform == 'darwin': - tdir = '/private' + tdir + # See :note: above to learn why this is comented out. + # if sys.platform == 'darwin': + # tdir = '/private' + tdir return tdir |