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Re: [PATCH] Redirect cd output to /dev/null, was: git-clone seems dead

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GLGreg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Date
Sep 12, 2005, 10:56 UTC
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<20050912105637.GA5290@athame.dynamicro.on.ca>
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On 20050911 (Sun) at 1847:30 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I really do not see a point of having CDPATH as an            
> environment variable, exported to be honored by any unsuspecting
> shell scripts.
> 
Well, that's why I didn't originally bother submitting the patch -- was 
just going to use it internally.
  
I could argue that it's a relatively harmless contribution to
robustness of the git scripts, but if someone replied that total
idiot-proofing isn't a worthwhile goal for a project of this sort, I   
wouldn't necessarily disagree.
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  1. Peter EriksenSep 11, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005
  3. Greg LouisSep 11, 2005
  4. Redirect cd output to /dev/null, was: git-clone seems deadGreg Louis, Sep 11, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  6. Peter EriksenSep 12, 2005
  7. Greg LouisSep 12, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  9. Greg LouisSep 12, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  11. Greg LouisSep 13, 2005

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