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 cannot do

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,

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com 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

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 gits...@pobox.com 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

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com 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

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 considering this a bug.

Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

2014-03-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff King p...@peff.net 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. Yes. I would lean