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Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 11, 2007, 17:09 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111807470.4516@racer.site>
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<9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> [describes the typical CDPATH problem]

You exported CDPATH. You're guaranteed to run into problems with that. I doubt that your patch catches all problems in git, and even if we tried to avoid breakage, you can only do so much about that.

It is _wrong_ to export CDPATH.

Hth, Dscho

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  1. Wincent ColaiutaJul 11, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2007
  3. David KastrupJul 12, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaJul 12, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2007
  9. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2007
  11. Wincent ColaiutaJul 17, 2007
  12. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007

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