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From: Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unset CDPATH in git-clone
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:52:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906145201.GA4551@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3boj486h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:
> 
> > The function get_repo_base seems to break with this CDPATH.
> 
> Sorry, your message somehow slipped my filtering.  Thanks for
> the analysis.  Of course, CDPATH would break it.
> 
> Is there any good reason why somebody would want to have CDPATH
> in his environment, inherited to be used by any shell scripts,
> as opposed to have it as a plain shell variable that is set only
> in interactive shells?  I do not think of any.

Good point.  There is no good reason at all.  It happens when one does
not know the difference between a plain shell variable and an
environment variable.

Carl

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 15:24 [PATCH] unset CDPATH in git-clone Carl Baldwin
2005-09-05 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-06 14:52   ` Carl Baldwin [this message]

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