From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:53:43 GMT Subject: Re: bug in make install Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vd4p75ycu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Marco Maggi wrote: > > > >> Do not bother me asking why I put "." in CDPATH. > > > > We will probably not bother. But we mention that exporting CDPATH > > makes absolutely zero sense. > > Often people who make this mistake do not know the difference between > setting it as a shell variable and exporting it to the environment, so a > comment to hint that there is a difference may be a helpful and friendly > thing to do. Funny. I did not even know about CDPATH until I joined the mailing list. So I assumed -- maybe mistakenly -- that everybody who wants to set CDPATH, especially to ".", knows what they are talking about. Ciao, Dscho