Disabling 'http_proxy' not working as expected

[Ben Finney]

Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
>     Ben> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
>     >> In a later message in this thread, I demonstrated the same problem
>     >> occuring with an empty 'http_proxy' veriable.
>     Ben> Except apparently I didn't.

Wow, that's one really annoying quoting style. Could you please use
normal attribution lines and '> ' quote leaders?

> Looks like echo has the same problem... or not ?

'echo' is usually implemented as a shell built-in, operating entirely
within the current shell's environment, so is perhaps not a good
comparison to make with an external program like 'bzr'.

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