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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug in make install
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:53:43 +0200 (CEST)
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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