Re: [PATCH] unset CDPATH in git-clone

From: Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 14:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20050906145201.GA4551@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3boj486h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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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