From 2c3f2c5733bbc0ca1e1c80c74cc616e882a83800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "John W. Parent" <45471568+johnwparent@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 02:25:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Windows: Update default config for stage location (#48511)

Current location is within the Spack prefix, which causes builds to
pollute VCS with stage artifacts and generally inflates the Spack
install prefix.

This PR moves it to the user cache location now that we can
consistently support paths with spaces on Windows.
---
 etc/spack/defaults/windows/config.yaml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/etc/spack/defaults/windows/config.yaml b/etc/spack/defaults/windows/config.yaml
index eaa336dca2b..f54febe9575 100644
--- a/etc/spack/defaults/windows/config.yaml
+++ b/etc/spack/defaults/windows/config.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 config:
   locks: false
   build_stage::
-    - '$spack/.staging'
+    - '$user_cache_path/stage'
   stage_name: '{name}-{version}-{hash:7}'