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

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MMMikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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Feb 7, 2015, 00:03 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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?

I reported this issue a few months ago, http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/258886 Someone sent a patch that never went anywhere, http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/258895

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Mikael Magnusson
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Message 10 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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