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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:09:34 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111807470.4516@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> [describes the typical CDPATH problem]

You exported CDPATH.  You're guaranteed to run into problems with that.  I 
doubt that your patch catches all problems in git, and even if we tried to 
avoid breakage, you can only do so much about that.

It is _wrong_ to export CDPATH.

Hth,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11 16:59 Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-11 17:09 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-07-12  7:51   ` David Kastrup
2007-07-12  8:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-12 10:24       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-12 11:52         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-12 11:37     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 11:40   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-07-17 18:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 19:07       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-17 20:19       ` Uwe Kleine-König

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