From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, christian.couder@gmail.com,
ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com, sbeller@google.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC][PATCH v5 3/3] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 15:03:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170526220319.GC4592@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83801d05-e3a9-b7e4-8f29-cd8172257dac@kdbg.org>
On 05/26, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 26.05.2017 um 17:17 schrieb Prathamesh Chavan:
> >+ argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "path=%s", list_item->name);
>
> Not good! On Windows, environment variables are case insensitive.
> The environment variable "path" has a very special purpose, although
> it is generally spelled "PATH" (actually "Path" on Windows).
>
> Lowercase "path" may have worked as long as it was only used in a
> shell script (and perhaps only by lucky coincidence), but this I can
> pretty much guarantee to fail. (I haven't tested it, though.)
>
> The correct fix can only be to rename this variable here and in
> shell scripts that need the value that is set here.
>
> -- Hannes
Nice catch, the only reason why this would have worked before was
because it was a shell script before...
--
Brandon Williams
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-27 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 17:05 [GSoC][RFC/PATCH] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-19 18:08 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-22 19:58 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-24 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 20:03 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:11 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-04-24 22:17 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:43 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-12 11:44 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-12 11:44 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-15 17:22 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-15 18:34 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-21 12:58 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-21 12:58 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-22 20:04 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 19:09 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 19:36 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 20:57 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 21:05 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 2/3] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:19 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:33 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 3/3] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:14 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:44 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 21:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 22:03 ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-05-27 1:20 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 14:06 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 21:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 16:31 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Ramsay Jones
2017-05-26 17:07 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-27 1:10 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 21:53 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-30 23:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 23:29 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-31 0:13 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-31 0:48 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-02 11:24 ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 1/2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-02 11:24 ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-03 2:13 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-04 10:32 ` Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-23 19:06 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Brandon Williams
2017-06-03 0:37 ` [PATCH] submodule foreach: correct $sm_path in nested submodules from a dir Stefan Beller
2017-06-03 14:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-04 15:05 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-05 22:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
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