From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Louis Subject: Re: [PATCH] Redirect cd output to /dev/null, was: git-clone seems dead Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:37 -0400 Organization: Dynamicro Consulting Limited Message-ID: <20050912105637.GA5290@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> References: <7vd5nfs9y0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050911220421.GA14593@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> <20050911230136.GA15224@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> <7vwtlnm4zx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 12 12:58:31 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EElzf-0000WC-4C for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:56:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750725AbVILK4n (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750731AbVILK4n (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:43 -0400 Received: from csl2r.consultronics.on.ca ([204.138.93.16]:13955 "EHLO csl2.consultronics.on.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725AbVILK4n (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:43 -0400 Received: from [70.29.36.34] (helo=athame.dynamicro.internal ident=glouis) by csl2.consultronics.on.ca with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.52) id 1EElzK-0004tX-34 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:38 -0400 Received: from root by athame.dynamicro.internal with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EElzJ-0001Op-Ms for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:56:37 -0400 To: git@vger.kernel.org Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vwtlnm4zx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 20050911 (Sun) at 1847:30 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I really do not see a point of having CDPATH as an > environment variable, exported to be honored by any unsuspecting > shell scripts. > Well, that's why I didn't originally bother submitting the patch -- was just going to use it internally. I could argue that it's a relatively harmless contribution to robustness of the git scripts, but if someone replied that total idiot-proofing isn't a worthwhile goal for a project of this sort, I wouldn't necessarily disagree. -- | G r e g L o u i s | gpg public key: 0x400B1AA86D9E3E64 | | http://www.bgl.nu/~glouis | (on my website or any keyserver) | | http://wecanstopspam.org in signatures helps fight junk email. |