On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carl Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > The function get_repo_base seems to break with this CDPATH.
> 
> Sorry, your message somehow slipped my filtering.  Thanks for
> the analysis.  Of course, CDPATH would break it.
> 
> Is there any good reason why somebody would want to have CDPATH
> in his environment, inherited to be used by any shell scripts,
> as opposed to have it as a plain shell variable that is set only
> in interactive shells?  I do not think of any.

Good point.  There is no good reason at all.  It happens when one does
not know the difference between a plain shell variable and an
environment variable.

Carl

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