Timeline for Why does FOO=bar; export the variable into my environment

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May 21, 2019 at 3:58	comment	added	Johan Myréen		Sorry, I should have posted this as a comment to the question, where Rothgar said that FOO was also "exported into my current shell environment."
May 20, 2019 at 23:08	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 3 characters in body
May 20, 2019 at 22:43	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	Typo
May 20, 2019 at 22:12	vote	accept	Justin Garrison
May 20, 2019 at 21:24	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	Better description.
May 20, 2019 at 21:19	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 151 characters in body
May 20, 2019 at 21:04	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	Builtin effect.
May 20, 2019 at 21:03	comment	added	Kusalananda♦		Not knowing anything about Docker, I wonder if it would actually work if the `-e FOO=$FOO` thing (which I presume is used to set an environment variable) is removed since `FOO` is set in Docker's environment.
May 20, 2019 at 21:01	comment	added	Johan Myréen		The variable `FOO` is also not exported to the current shell environment, but set as a shell variable, unless it has been previously exported.
May 20, 2019 at 20:50	history	edited	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 402 characters in body
May 20, 2019 at 20:43	history	answered	user232326	CC BY-SA 4.0