Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Dienstag, 28. September 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> git-merge-octopus.sh >> >> Why isn't upcasing necessary for all the other uses of environment >> variables? For example, we pass reflog action by exporting a variable, >> and we use GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and friends to override configuration >> variables. Do they get upcased? > > It is the environment variable *names* that get upper-cased, not the values. Ah, of course. I should have noticed it if I read the patch more carefully. Thanks for an explanation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html