# This should always be the first line of code to facilitate debugging
 [ -n "$VCSH_DEBUG" ] && set -vx
 
-basename() {
-       # Implemented in shell to avoid spawning another process
-       local file
-       file="${1%/}"
-       file="${file##*/}"
-       [ -z "$2" ] || file="${file%$2}"
-       echo "$file"
-}
-
 SELF=$(basename $0)
-VERSION='1.20130909.git-HEAD'
+VERSION='1.20131214.git-HEAD'
 
 fatal() {
        echo "$SELF: fatal: $1" >&2
                VCSH_DEBUG=1
                echo "debug mode on"
                echo "$SELF $VERSION"
-       elif [ "$1" = '-v' ];then
+       elif [ "$1" = '-v' ]; then
                VCSH_VERBOSE=1
                echo "verbose mode on"
                echo "$SELF $VERSION"
-       elif [ "$1" = '-c' ];then
+       elif [ "$1" = '-c' ]; then
                VCSH_OPTION_CONFIG=$OPTARG
        fi
        shift 1
 pull() {
        hook pre-pull
        for VCSH_REPO_NAME in $(list); do
-               echo -n "$VCSH_REPO_NAME: "
+               printf "$VCSH_REPO_NAME: "
                export GIT_DIR="$VCSH_REPO_D/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git"
                use
                git pull
 push() {
        hook pre-push
        for VCSH_REPO_NAME in $(list); do
-               echo -n "$VCSH_REPO_NAME: "
+               printf "$VCSH_REPO_NAME: "
                export GIT_DIR="$VCSH_REPO_D/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git"
                use
                git push
 
        # Contrary to GNU mktemp, mktemp on BSD/OSX requires a template for temp files
        # Use the template GNU mktemo defaults to
-       tempfile=$(mktemp tmp.XXXXXXXXXX) || fatal "could not create tempfile" 51
+       # The downside to this is that we need to set TMPDIR explicitly; this may or may not be empty, so...
+       [ -z "$TMPDIR" ] && TMPDIR='/tmp'
+       tempfile=$(mktemp ${TMPDIR}/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX) || fatal "could not create tempfile: '${tempfile}'" 51
 
        echo '*' > "$tempfile" || fatal "could not write to '$tempfile'" 57
        for gitignore in $gitignores; do