From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:41:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Pull request for msysGit patches
Message-ID: <7v4od9rzb8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201009282311.01703.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> 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.