Re: BUG: 'error: invalid key: pager.show_ref' on 'git show_ref'

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 6, 2015, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20150206203902.GB10857@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnl6hljt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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

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> 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