From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:11:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Pull request for msysGit patches
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:
> 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