From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:09:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111807470.4516@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <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