Re: [msysGit] Re: Pull request for msysGit patches

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sep 28, 2010, 21:11 UTC
Message-ID: <201009282311.01703.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vocbhsn03.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Dienstag, 28. September 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> git-merge-octopus.sh
>
> Why isn't upcasing necessary for all the other uses of environment
> variables?  For example, we pass reflog action by exporting a variable,
> and we use GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and friends to override configuration
> variables.  Do they get upcased?

It is the environment variable *names* that get upper-cased, not the values. The variable name that was set for use by git-merge-octopus is of the form GITHEAD_deadbeef, but inside git-merge-octopus, the name is GITHEAD_DEADBEEF. Only MSYS programs like bash, but not native Windows programs like git, suffer from this.

-- Hannes

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