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

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

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