[PATCH] sh-setup: work around "unset IFS" bug in some shells

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Dec 7, 2012, 22:34 UTC

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<7va9tpfq46.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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<7vobi5fu3c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

It is easy to set it to the default value manually, so let's do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-sh-setup.sh | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index ee0e0bc..107c144 100644
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
 # But we protect ourselves from such a user mistake nevertheless.
 unset CDPATH
 
-# Similarly for IFS
-unset IFS
+# Similarly for IFS, but some shells (e.g. FreeBSD 7.2) are buggy and
+# do not equate an unset IFS with IFS with the default, so here is
+# an explicit SP HT LF.
+IFS=' 	
+'
 
 git_broken_path_fix () {
 	case ":$PATH:" in

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