Re: [PATCH 5/9] t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowed

> Hi Brandon,
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Brandon Williams wrote:
> 
> > On 06/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > We are about to change the way aliases are expanded, to use the early
> > > config machinery.
> > > 
> > > This machinery reports errors in a slightly different manner than the
> > > cached config machinery.
> > 
> > Not a comment on the patch but just a genuine question: Is there any
> > reason why they complain in a different way?  Doesn't it make sense for
> > the errors to be reported consistently?
> 
> Yes, I agree that they should not complain in different ways.
> 
> I had a brief look to see whether I could quickly fix that "while at it".
> But it seems to be quite a bit more involved than I am comfortable
> slipping into this patch series (whose purpose is not to fix the dichotomy
> between direct and cached config parsing, after all).