From e83b2b0fdd2458242837b60d4da7f09802ca07a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:02:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] git: Choose a saner default for
 '%repository-cache-directory'.

* guix/git.scm (%repository-cache-directory): Use 'cache-directory'
by default unless running as root.
---
 guix/git.scm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/git.scm b/guix/git.scm
index 3d0eb93d9b..d007916662 100644
--- a/guix/git.scm
+++ b/guix/git.scm
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ (define-module (guix git)
             latest-repository-commit))
 
 (define %repository-cache-directory
-  (make-parameter "/var/cache/guix/checkouts"))
+  (make-parameter (string-append (cache-directory #:ensure? #f)
+                                 "/checkouts")))
 
 (define-syntax-rule (with-libgit2 thunk ...)
   (begin