From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:23:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compress output of `cd' when installing templates
Message-ID: <7vy7wvi6dr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060521185421.a91bf118.tihirvon@gmail.com>

Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> writes:

> Gang Chen <goncha.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When CDPATH is set in Bash, `cd' writes new working directory to
>> stdout, which corrupts output of `tar cf - .'.
>
> Fix bash instead, or just don't export CDPATH.  It is used by bash only
> so exporting it is unnecessary.

Thanks.

It is not just unnecessary, but "export CDPATH" anywhere in your
rc scripts is actively *WRONG*.