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Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 12, 2007, 08:34 UTC
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Don't educate people.  Just don't trigger their problems.  Of course,
> there are millions of ways of shooting oneself in the foot, but in
> this case the same foot has been hit several times already.

Yup. We do exactly that in git-clone, git-sh-setup and t/test-lib to avoid getting bugged by this stupidity.

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Message 4 of 12 in “Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable”
  1. Wincent ColaiutaJul 11, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2007
  3. David KastrupJul 12, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaJul 12, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2007
  9. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2007
  11. Wincent ColaiutaJul 17, 2007
  12. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007

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