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Build oddities

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MMichael <kensington@astralcloak.net>
Date
Feb 5, 2012, 06:34 UTC
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<loom.20120205T072940-523@post.gmane.org>
Hi there,

I ran into a build oddity with git today - the environment variable $X is appended to most binaries. At the time, I had X=last, so I ended up with gitlast, git-peek-remotelast etc.

Does anyone know why this behaviour exists, and if it is still desired?

Best regards, Michael

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