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. But I agree that it > does not help. Dash's behavior is POSIX (and "bash --posix" behaves the same way). http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137095 -Peff -- 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