From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:09:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 11 19:17:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8fot-00045N-Lm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:17:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755206AbXGKRRU (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:17:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755281AbXGKRRT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:17:19 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48389 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755206AbXGKRRT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:17:19 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2007 17:17:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2007 19:17:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19FY2Fv4DJFo7KrfuMu0v9YS9HjXy80M4nbogwJlK nWRJJYS+0Wv1BE X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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