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From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: 'error: invalid key: pager.show_ref' on 'git show_ref'
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:39:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150206203902.GB10857@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnl6hljt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 11:44:38AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:45:28PM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote:
> >
> >>   $ git show_ref
> >>   error: invalid key: pager.show_ref
> >>   error: invalid key: alias.show_ref
> >>   git: 'show_ref' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> >> 
> >> Apparently we need to squelch this message from
> >> within git_config_get_* in this case?
> > ...
> > So it is not a new problem, but it is a bug that you
> > cannot set pager config for such a command or alias.
> 
> Hmm, I think these are two separate issues.

Yeah, sorry, if I wasn't clear. The error messages are definitely a
separate and newer issue, and need to be silenced one way or the other.
It is just that they are notifying us of a deeper problem that has
existed for a long time, and it probably makes sense to deal with both.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-06 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06 12:45 BUG: 'error: invalid key: pager.show_ref' on 'git show_ref' Andreas Krey
2015-02-06 19:33 ` Jeff King
2015-02-06 19:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-06 20:39     ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-02-10 19:45       ` [PATCH] config: add show_err flag to git_config_parse_key() Tanay Abhra
2015-02-11  0:27         ` Jeff King
2015-02-11 18:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-16  7:58             ` [PATCH v2] add a flag to supress errors in git_config_parse_key() Tanay Abhra
2015-02-18 19:02               ` Jeff King
2015-02-07  0:03     ` BUG: 'error: invalid key: pager.show_ref' on 'git show_ref' Mikael Magnusson
2015-02-07  5:01       ` Jeff King
2015-02-06 20:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-06 20:37     ` Jeff King
2015-02-06 22:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-06 22:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-07  4:52         ` Jeff King

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