Re: [PATCH v2] Replace instances of export VAR=VAL with VAR=VAL; export VAR

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 22:53 UTC
Message-ID: <85sl2q6kyu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlwy2dkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> 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.

dak@lola:~$ ash $ export JUNK=woozle $ sh -c 'echo $JUNK' woozle $ exit dak@lola:~$ dash $ export JUNK=woozle $ sh -c 'echo $JUNK' woozle $ exit

What problem are we talking about exactly, and with what shell?

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