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

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 7, 2015, 04:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20150207045219.GA15548@peff.net>
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:27:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > A list of enum-like values where we are OK confining the names to the
> > alnums is OK to use as an unbounded set of key values. Just like we have
> > color.branch.*, we just pick a name within that syntax for any new
> > values we add (and that is not even a burden; alnum names are what we
> > would have picked anyway).
> 
> I would say that color.branch.<slot> names are very different from
> subcommand names.  The latter is exposed to the end users who do not
> have to know that they can be used and must be usable as config
> keys.

Yeah, again, sorry if I wasn't clear. That was the same contrast I was making. Of the examples given in this thread, color.branch.<slot> and fsck.* names are in one boat ("OK to give them configuration-friendly names, they are just a list") and arbitrary commands are in another.

-Peff
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Message 16 of 16 in “BUG: 'error: invalid key: pager.show_ref' on 'git show_ref'”
  1. Andreas KreyFeb 6, 2015
  2. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2015
  4. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2015
  5. config: add show_err flag to git_config_parse_key()Tanay Abhra, Feb 10, 2015
  6. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2015
  8. add a flag to supress errors in git_config_parse_key()Tanay Abhra, Feb 16, 2015
  9. Jeff KingFeb 18, 2015
  10. Mikael MagnussonFeb 7, 2015
  11. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2015
  13. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2015
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2015
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2015
  16. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2015

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