Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 shell function >> > (most notably, "test_must_fail"); >> >> No? bash: >> >> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo() >> > { >> > echo $XXX >> > echo $XXX >> > } >> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo >> 8 >> 8 > > 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. But I agree that it does not help. -- David Kastrup -- 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