From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:55:38 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2011, #13; Mon, 30) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4DE38B61.6030400@viscovery.net> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 14:19, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 5/30/2011 14:08, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:16, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> * ab/i18n-scripts (2011-05-21) 48 commits >>>  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-23 at 69164a3) >>> [...] >>> Rerolled. >>> Will cook a bit longer. >> >> This being ready for master is waiting on Johannes Sixt's patches to >> supply a fallback getenv() on Win32. >> >> Johannes, what's the status of that, and is there anything I can do to >> help with that? > > I've started with something I thought would be trivial, but I early > tripped over a pitfall where getenv is asked to look for "PATH", and it is > expected to find "Path" when we only have the latter in the environment. > Sigh. I think that's solvable. Great. > Another worry is that the home-grown getenv is not thread-safe. I think it > does not matter today, but who knows... Doesn't matter for git-sh-i18n--envsubst at least, but if we want to use it everywhere it might. We could just start with git-sh-i18n--envsubst and maybe use it for other stuff later. > Anyway, I've at most an hour of quality git time during the week, so it > will take some time... No problem.