Re: [msysGit] Re: Pull request for msysGit patches

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

On Dienstag, 28. September 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.