Re: [PATCH] Add ability to specify environment extension to run_command

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: May 22, 2007, 06:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20070522065427.GS942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070522063821.GE11636@spearce.org>

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:38:22AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> I thought this thread all started because we wanted to run a
> command in a subproject, and did not want the parent's GIT_*
> environment variables to confuse the subproject process when
> it started.  That's a pretty simple concept: clear any GIT_*
> environment variable that can change behavior in the subproject.
> And almost everyone who is trying to use this API and alter the
> env wants exactly that - a subproject command.

This would work for me, I suppose. Right now, I sometimes set GIT_DIR explicitly, but I could just chdir (or use --git-dir=).

skimo