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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in make install
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:53:43 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0804031852550.4008@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4p75ycu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

Funny.  I did not even know about CDPATH until I joined the mailing list.  
So I assumed -- maybe mistakenly -- that everybody who wants to set 
CDPATH, especially to ".", knows what they are talking about.

Ciao,
Dscho

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03 17:54 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
2008-04-03 16:53     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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