3699: back out attempts to change tempfile.tempdir

Too many error conditions -- if the disk is full, have the user change
it manually with TMPDIR=/scratch

diff --git a/sdk/python/arvados/commands/copy.py b/sdk/python/arvados/commands/copy.py
index d8ce4f4cdaa9fc977a935ad14f9878b228c9b5d3..3fd54a0d92377f2339cff91335f35ecd8ccb321a 100755 (executable)
--- a/sdk/python/arvados/commands/copy.py
+++ b/sdk/python/arvados/commands/copy.py
@@ -336,11 +336,6 @@ def copy_git_repo(src_git_repo, src, dst, dst_git_repo):
     dst_git_push_url  = r['items'][0]['push_url']
     logger.debug('dst_git_push_url: {}'.format(dst_git_push_url))
 
-    # If there is a /scratch partition available, attempt to use it
-    # to check out the git repo (which can be quite large)
-    if os.path.exists('/scratch'):
-        tempfile.tempdir = '/scratch/{}'.format(getpass.getuser())
-        os.mkdir(tempfile.tempdir)
     tmprepo = tempfile.mkdtemp()
 
     dst_branch = re.sub(r'\W+', '_', src_git_url)