Jonathan Nieder wrote, On 04/03/2013 12:52 PM:
> forcemerge 480371 704627
> tags 480371 + fixed-upstream
> quit
...
> Yeah, this is an unpleasant consequence of bug#480371, which should be
> fixed by
> 
>  commit 46d3c1a614f11f0d40a7e73376359618ff07abcd
>  Author: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
>  Date:   Sat Feb 25 15:35:18 2012 +0800
> 
>      [VAR] Sanitise environment variable names on entry

Jonathan,

thanks for the very quick response, sorry i didn't see that bug.

BUT...  the other part of this issue is that 'dot-source' is fatal-aborting
on that 'export BAD-VAR=value'.  It wasn't clear to me that that is expected
behavior.  It's certainly not necessarily desireable.

thanks,
--stephen
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