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Re: bug in make install

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2008, 04:57 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Marco Maggi wrote:
>
>> Do not bother me asking why I put "." in CDPATH.
>
> We will probably not bother.  But we mention that exporting CDPATH makes 
> absolutely zero sense.

Often people who make this mistake do not know the difference between setting it as a shell variable and exporting it to the environment, so a comment to hint that there is a difference may be a helpful and friendly thing to do.

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  1. Marco MaggiApr 2, 2008
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  3. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2008
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