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Build oddities

Subject: Build oddities

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2 messages between Feb 5, 2012 and Feb 5, 2012.

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Michael· Feb 5, 2012, 06:34 UTC · lore

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

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy· Feb 5, 2012, 06:46 UTC · re: Michael · lore

Re: Build oddities

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Michael <kensington@astralcloak.net> wrote:

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> 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.

$X is to append .exe for Windows build so you would get git.exe, git-peek-remote.exe... We should set X to empty from the beginning. Patches are welcome.

-- 
Duy

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