From: Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:56:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Redirect cd output to /dev/null, was: git-clone seems dead
Message-ID: <20050912105637.GA5290@athame.dynamicro.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtlnm4zx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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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