From: Tim Pierce <twp@curoverse.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:58:44 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: 3699: back out attempts to change tempfile.tempdir
X-Git-Tag: 1.1.0~2067^2~28
X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/commitdiff_plain/e09e57378e5f98235e472a35c18a3e3a2bac97fb

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 d8ce4f4cda..3fd54a0d92 100755
--- 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)