Re: [PATCH] Add cg-printenv command.

[Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 08:38 pm, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> MH> Hi Steven,
> >> The cg-printenv command will print exported git environment variables.
> SC> +echo "AUTHOR_NAME="$AUTHOR_NAME
> SC> +echo "AUTHOR_EMAIL="$AUTHOR_EMAIL
> SC> +echo "AUTHOR_DATE="$AUTHOR_DATE
> SC> +echo "COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME
> SC> +echo "COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
> 
> MH> I like that idea. It is much more handy then using env and grep for the
> MH> variable names.
> 
> I wonder what this command is used for?  In a script to be
> "eval"ed?  Or just interactively by the end-user?

I had intended it only as a quick check by an end-user before doing
a commit that the values had been set as desired.

> 
> Even if it is just for human consumption, I think the echo
> commands I quoted above have double quotes backwards.  Wouldn't
> it make more sense to quote the variables so shell expansion
> would not lose whitespaces inside of variable values, like this?
> 
>     echo AUTHOR_NAME="$AUTHOR_NAME"
>     echo AUTHOR_EMAIL="$AUTHOR_EMAIL"
>     echo AUTHOR_DATE="$AUTHOR_DATE"
>     echo COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
>     echo COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
> 
My simple testing didn't result in any meaningful whitespace loss,
but I only had a single blank character inside my test strings.  Your
method is better.

[steven@spc cogito]$ echo "AUTHOR_NAME="$AUTHOR_NAME
AUTHOR_NAME=Homer Simpson
[steven@spc cogito]$ echo COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Two  Spaces  Here

> If it is for eval consumption of course they have to be much
> more careful.
> 

If Petr wants to add this command, he can either move the double quotes
or I can submit a modified patch.

Thanks,
Steven