From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:16:53 GMT
Subject: Re: New GSoC microproject ideas
Message-ID: <87wqfzi5wa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ty7me6a.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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

> Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
>
> -- >8 --
>
> "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> (most notably, "test_must_fail");

No? bash:

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8


dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/dash
$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8
$ 

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/ash
$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8
$ 


Seems to work just fine with a set of typical shells.

-- 
David Kastrup