From: Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com>

Some sh implementations interpret "unset IFS" to mean IFS=''.  This was
seen in FreeBSD 7.2's sh.

We need to make sure IFS has its default value: <space><tab><newline>.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com>
---
 git-sh-setup.sh | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index ee0e0bc..56e6498 100644
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
 # But we protect ourselves from such a user mistake nevertheless.
 unset CDPATH
 
-# Similarly for IFS
-unset IFS
+# Similarly for IFS, except that some sh implementations interpret "unset IFS"
+# as IFS='', so we need to set IFS explicitly to its POSIX default using
+# literal <space><tab><newline> characters.
+IFS='  
+'
 
 git_broken_path_fix () {
        case ":$PATH:" in
-- 
1.8.0.1

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