sh-setup: protect from exported IFS

Many scripted Porcelains rely on being able to split words at the
default $IFS characters, i.e. SP, HT and LF.  If the user exports a
non-default IFS to the environment, what they read from plumbing
commands such as ls-files that use HT to delimit fields may not be
split in the way we expect.

Protect outselves by resetting it, just like we do so against CDPATH
exported to the environment.

Noticed by Andrew Dranse <adranse@oanda.com>.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 5d8e4e6c89f0471567a7aa1f07b054d8ac502e15..69472e4125ae6b9962fc47c73bcb3f9ecc3a1772 100644 (file)
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@
 # you would cause "cd" to be taken to unexpected places.  If you
 # like CDPATH, define it for your interactive shell sessions without
 # exporting it.
+# But we protect ourselves from such a user mistake nevertheless.
 unset CDPATH
 
+# Similarly for IFS
+unset IFS
+
 git_broken_path_fix () {
        case ":$PATH:" in
        *:$1:*) : ok ;;