From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:46:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Replace instances of export VAR=VAL with VAR=VAL; export VAR
Message-ID: <7vzlwy2dkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <85ve7m8iix.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> It might be POSIX, but there are shells that do not like the
>> expression 'export VAR=VAL'.
>
> As long as we have no positive report about any such shell that
> _otherwise_ would be usable for git, why bother?

I thought somebody already mention that ash mishandles "export VAR=VAL"
but otherwise Ok.