Re: Hook scripts run with empty environment

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> We appear to run hook scripts with a totally empty environment,
> instead of inheriting the environment of the svn process. Is there a
> reason for this?
>
> (The mechanics of doing this appear to date back to r1189, where we
> made it possible to run a program with an inherited environment but
> opted not to do so for hook scripts.)

I don't know (John Peacock's speculation of "security" might be right,
but I don't have any memories backing that up). It would make sense
to use the process environment, IMHO, and I'd be +1 on a fix or,
failing that, an issue to record the enhancement.

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Received on Mon Dec 20 22:39:05 2004