From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:57:53 GMT Subject: Re: bug in make install Message-ID: <7vd4p75ycu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > 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.