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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2010, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4od9rzb8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201009282311.01703.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

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> 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.

Ah, of course. I should have noticed it if I read the patch more carefully.

Thanks for an explanation.

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