From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example
Message-ID: <7vtxpey36p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130214210910.GA6660@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.