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From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own.
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On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I am somewhat wary of using environment variables in that context,  
> since
> the variables could leak to subprocesses, or (even worse), they  
> could be
> set inadvertently by the user or other scripts.

Agreed on the inadvertent setting, but isn't leaking to subprocesses  
the whole point of the exercise here?

-Steve