git shell scripts flaw wrt dirty env

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>]

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  I recently had an issue with git-rebase, and actually git-am, kind of
hard to track down. After some hassle to understand what was going on,
it happened that for an idiotic reason (me trying a fancy new login
manager for X that didn't cleansed environment before staring X) made
all my env dirty. In particular it had $resume (in small letters) set to
/dev/sda5, and git-am happens to use the very same variable, without
cleansing the environment.

  I'm maybe completely out of luck, and that's the sole unsafe use of
variables in git shell scripts, but I don't think so, and maybe some
kind of failsafe could be used. A crude way is to call:

  unset `env | cut -d= -f1 | grep -v [A-Z]`

  at the beginning of every script, so that every lowercase-only
variables are unset, hence can be safely used. But it's completely
tasteless. Though, as it can really lead to _very_ odd bugs, well, I
just wanted to share the issue. For the curious, you can read on [0]
what the issue looked like for me...


  [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=38;bug=435807#38

Cheers,
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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