Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 03/12/2014 08:04 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-) > > -- >8 -- > > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment > variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of > the shell itself, but we can

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:37:41PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> > Try: >> > >> > zippo() { >> > echo $XXX >> > } >> > XXX=8 zippo >> > zippo >> > >> > XXX remains set after the first call under dash (but not bash). I >> > believe "ash" has the same behavior. >>

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:37:41PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > Try: > > > > zippo() { > > echo $XXX > > } > > XXX=8 zippo > > zippo > > > > XXX remains set after the first call under dash (but not bash). I > > believe "ash" has the same behavior. > > Yes. I would lean towards con

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >> > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-) >> > >> > -- >8 -- >> > >> > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment >> > variable

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-) > > > > -- >8 -- > > > > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment > > variable VAR set to value VAL without af

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Junio C Hamano writes: > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-) > > -- >8 -- > > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment > variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of > the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-) -- >8 -- "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function (most notably, "test_m

New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread Michael Haggerty
Hi, I just added a few microproject suggestions to the list for newly-arriving students [1]. A couple of them are weak, but I think number 17 has enough aspects to keep a whole crew of students busy for a while. Michael [1] http://git.github.io/SoC-2014-Microprojects.html -- Michael Haggerty