From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in make install
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:57:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4p75ycu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0804022116080.4008@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:16:43 +0200 (CEST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Marco Maggi wrote:
>
>> Do not bother me asking why I put "." in CDPATH.
>
> We will probably not bother. But we mention that exporting CDPATH makes
> absolutely zero sense.
Often people who make this mistake do not know the difference between
setting it as a shell variable and exporting it to the environment, so a
comment to hint that there is a difference may be a helpful and friendly
thing to do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 19:43 bug in make install Marco Maggi
2008-04-02 19:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-03 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-04-03 16:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
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