Allow environment variables to be unset in the processes started by run_command

To unset a variable, just specify its name, without "=". For example:

    const char *env[] = {"GIT_DIR=.git", "PWD", NULL};
    const char *argv[] = {"git-ls-files", "-s", NULL};
    int err = run_command_v_opt_cd_env(argv, RUN_GIT_CMD, ".", env);

The PWD will be unset before executing git-ls-files.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

run-command.c

@@ -77,8 +77,12 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 			die("exec %s: cd to %s failed (%s)", cmd->argv[0],
 			    cmd->dir, strerror(errno));
 		if (cmd->env) {
-			for (; *cmd->env; cmd->env++)
-				putenv((char*)*cmd->env);
+			for (; *cmd->env; cmd->env++) {
+				if (strchr(*cmd->env, '='))
+					putenv((char*)*cmd->env);
+				else
+					unsetenv(*cmd->env);
+			}
 		}
 		if (cmd->git_cmd) {
 			execv_git_cmd(cmd->argv);

run-command.h

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ int run_command(struct child_process *);
 #define RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR 4
 int run_command_v_opt(const char **argv, int opt);
 int run_command_v_opt_cd(const char **argv, int opt, const char *dir);
+
+/*
+ * env (the environment) is to be formatted like environ: "VAR=VALUE".
+ * To unset an environment variable use just "VAR".
+ */
 int run_command_v_opt_cd_env(const char **argv, int opt, const char *dir, const char *const *env);
 
 #endif