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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2013, 21:51 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I think it has always been the case that we export them after setting
> them; just look at the preimage from 3c730fab, and you can see exports
> there.

Yeah, I think the only difference is a broken commit case where sed expression did not find what it was looking for, in which case we do not do the export.

> I think the advice in the documentation about re-exporting is because
> some versions of the bourne shell will not reliably pass the new version
> of the variable ...

Ahh, old and painful memory of Solaris days comes back to me. OK, let's keep the export then.

Thanks.
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  1. Documentation: filter-branch env-filter exampleTadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski, Feb 14, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2013
  3. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2013
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